Hackathons
I competed in a number of hackathons over a 5 years period.
2RE10.01 – Play In Motion (2013) – an app that allows you to create trivia games on the fly at hosted locations
2RE10.02 – MeHavior (2013) – an app that uses rewards programs to guide consumer behavior such as doing good in education, civic engagements, and community involvement. – won 3 awards Amazon WS Cloud Challenge, Element, and Scopely Challenge: Best Civic App with a Gaming or Social Element
2RE10.03 – Transparent LA (2013) – a tool for the allows ordinary people to engage with civic data to discover how the City of Los Angeles spends public funds
2RE10.04 – FRample (2014) – an app that alerts a user when there are free samples nearby
2RE10.05 – Click-O-Meter (2014) – IoT voting system – won Honorable Mention
2RE10.06 – Watch IDE (2014) – Apple Watch emulator inside your phone for programming watch apps
2RE10.07 – Duo (2014) – an interactive, reciprocating, gender-neutral, wi-fi enabled, remote, adult toy – won 3rd Place
2RE10.08 – AutoMon (2014) – driver assistant
2RE10.09 – Deep Water Dragon (2014) – video game
2RE10.10 – DownForIt (2015) – an app with a very low barrier to entry that allows you to create a spontaneous get together with anyone who’s interested – won Twitter Prize
2RE10.11 – ProtoHack advisor (2015) – volunteered as an hackathon advisor
2RE10.12 – Sesame (2015) – 2-factor authentication to open your door – won Most Innovate
2RE10.13 – $1 Internet (2015) – mesh network idea for cities – won Most Potential Impact on Society prize
2RE10.14 – Cardboard Sunglasses (2015) – joke useless invention
2RE10.15 – mapIncrease (2015) – physical board using LEDs and Arduinos to showing ad sales with LEDs matching US location – won Judges Choice Award
2RE10.16 – Corgi Co-Pilot (2015) – Biometrics for your car where Cara the Corgi helps keep the driver safe by reading your heartbeat and provides appropriate messages.
2RE10.17 – Fake Number Club (2016) – The easiest way to someone down if they ask you for your number. If you call or text a particular number, a robot will let you down easily and let you know that the person who gave you their number does not want to speak with you
2RE10.18 – Alexa: Factoids Please (2017) – Alexa skill to tell you a fact from the Just The Factoids database