Hackathon on 16th April 2011

Venue

Jaaga, Bangalore

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Beginner's Hour:
- Aimed at helping beginners with getting started with hardware (breadboard prototyping), and software (PCB designing etc...)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Open house:
- New project announcements from members
- Demonstrations ('Show offs', as we fondly call 'em)
- Getting more ideas on board
- Discussions of issues faced by folks in their current projects
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Workouts
- Teams get together to hack up and make progress on their projects
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Tech talk
- Ashwin will be talking about his experiments with Wii remote and Arduino.
  - Introduction to Wii console and Wii Remote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote)
  - Arduino and USB Host Shield
  - Ashwin's project: Rover based on arduino and USB host shield controlled with Wii Remote. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ5J5wQwUfo)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Further plans
- Discussion about the format of hackathons in future, what's working, what's not, what should be included and what should be removed.

Nope, this is not a formal registration with some fee and such. This is keep track of who attended and to be able to contact 'em just in case. https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dGVnMng0UndKNXNFSDFvQlBHY3YtdlE6MQ