Hackathons are marathon technical building events in which a team of 4 frantically read, research and code for 24 hours straight. All to produce a 'hack', a bodged together proof of concept that depending on the execution will either make people say: "wow you made that in 24 hours!?" or "wow... you spent 24 hours on that?"
I attended several hackathons during my time at university. Needless to say not all went well, but I don't regret the time spent doing any. Below is a showcase of 3 that were particularly memorable and had complete outcomes. Each of these 3 hacks were done with the same team: two friends at Oxford, and one from Edinburgh.
Oxford Hack '19
The objective was to produce a system that could procedurally generate Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats to Study/Relax/Hack to. Naturally we called it Lo-Fire. This was a fun hack.
Hack Harvard '18
Here our team had the idea of putting the hexagonal 'I Demoed' stickers you earn for presenting your work at an MLH hackathon on a blockchain, and framing it in a frontend hacker profile/social network.
Oxford Hack '17
Our team connected something to the internet that really didn't need to be connected to the internet. Presenting IOTea, an automatic web app controlled loose leaf tea brewing device.
