The Hack Day is a central part of Over the Air, with lots of great creativity and hard work through the night – and we are so thrilled that we are able to award an amazing selection of prizes to the winners of the various Hack Day Challenges and categories.
This wouldn’t be possible without the generosity and support of the following companies:
O’Reilly Media
For the last two years, the lovely people in the O’Reilly Media London office have donated the most amazingly broad range of practical and useful wireless programming books. Be sure to make good use of the free eBook Voucher that was provided to all attendees!
This year they awarded:
to Team SDK Dub Remix (Kieran Gutteridge and Chris Ross) for their winning entry Stop Blocking the Beats in the Best iOS Category.
LEGO
LEGO Mindstorm have really become a much-loved fixture of Over the Air with a robot hacking session on the workshop programme, and a history of great Hacks on the Demo stage. As they did last year, LEGO have generously given away all of the sets which were used during the workshop session as prizes for the Hack Day.
This year they awarded sets to:
- Sam Machin for his NS Tweet entry, which was the Audience Favourite,
- Team ET Bot (Blanca Tortajada, Elena Perez, and Ricardo Varela) for their winning entry ET Bot, in Dan’s Challenge,
- Team Hyperiron (Hercules Fisherman, Paul Tanner, Sarah Mount & Nikita Korotaev) for their winning entry Jatrobot in the Best Science Hack category,
- Team Umbicord (Sandor Toth) for his winning entry Umbicord in the Best Hardware Hack category, and
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Team Robohack (Emily & George Tilley) for their winning entry Fred in the Best Hardware Hack category
Vodafone Group R&D
Possibly one of the most coveted prizes this year was the Raspberry Pi , more due to the difficulty of obtaining one than it’s market value. Vodafone Group R&D generously awarded an RP to Terence Eden for his entry Bletchley Sonata, which won the Best in Show award, selected by the Judges.
The winners of the Vodafone Embedded Hardware Hack Challenge were Ali Bros & Dylan Jones for their entry Dude, Where’s My Car? Ali and Dylan each won an HTC 1 X phone, a k3770 modem, a SIM payt 20 credit, and an mbed, donated by Vodafone.




The Bletchley Park Trust
Along with a Bletchley Park T-shirt, the lovely people at Bletchley Park Trust gave a First Day Cover stamp from the Bletchley Park Post Office, signed by Jean Valentine (one of the original Bletchley Park Wren’s).
This was awarded to Team TACS ( Thomas Hopper) for his winning entry The Bletchley SMS Encryptor in the Bletchley Park Challenge.
HMGCC
The HMGCC were out large and in style at Over the Air again this year, letting people know about the many great job opportunities on their team, and this year they engraved a Motorola Xoom 2 especially for the event.
This was awarded to Team DoTank (Phil Willoughby) for his winning entry Snique in the Secure Communications Challenge.
Facebook
Facebook very generously donated a Samsung Galaxy S2, which went to the winners of the Facebook Open Graph Challenge – Ali Bros & Dylan Jones for their entry Dude, Where’s My Car?
Blackberry
The team at Blackberry very generously donated a Blackberry PlayBook for the Best User Experience award, which went to Team Glitch (William Morland ) for his entry Pepin
NOKIA
The Nokia Team brought a huge box of Lumia 800s with them to the event, some of which they gave away on-the-fly to developers they were having conversations with about the WindowsPhone platform (give us a shout if you were one of the lucky ones!)
The rest they awarded as prizes to:
- Team Hyperiron (Hercules Fisherman, Paul Tanner, Sarah Mount & Nikita Korotaev) for their winning entry Jatrobot in the Best Science Hack category
- Team Wendy (Matt O’Keefe, Dexter Dillinger, Laura Sanders, Trent Walton, Claire Scantlebury, and Matt Hunt) for their entry How Many Beers in the Best Windows Phone category
Samsung
The team at Samsung, even though they unfortunately couldn’t make it out to the event, very generously awarded an Samsung Galaxy S2 to Team Glitch (William Morland ) for his winning entry Pepin in the Best Use of Open APIs / Open Data category.
Google very generously donated and awarded a Galaxy Nexus to the winners for the Best Android Entry: Tom Hume for It’s Good to Talk, Terence Eden for Bletchley Sonata, and Team Intohand (Matt Rollings, Tom Durrant, Elliot Long and Kieran Gutteridge) for Live Quiz.
DroidCon / WIP
Thibaut Rouffineau of WIP (Wireless Industry Partnership) & the Droidcon London team brought an arm full of awards for the winners of the Best Android Entry:
- Free tickets to Droidcon 2012
- the book Android in Practice
- other Android Goodies…
The awards went to Tom Hume for It’s Good to Talk, Terence Eden for Bletchley Sonata, and Team Intohand (Matt Rollings, Tom Durrant, Elliot Long and Kieran Gutteridge) for Live Quiz.
Ansca Mobile
Although they couldn’t join us this year, Ansca Mobile very generously awarded a a Corona Pro subscription (a value of $349 per year) to Team Recently Engaged (Dom Hodgson and Heather Burke) for their winning entry I Hope This Works in the Best Game Category.
BlueVia
