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 …
The Results of the OTA12 Hack Day
Audience Favourite
The winner of the Audience Favourite Award was Sam Machin for NS Tweet:“
This is the twitter client MacGyver would use if he were stuck in a Hliton Hotel room with their expensive paid WiFi, or if he found …
Best Science Hack
The winner of the Best Science Hack award was Team Hyperiron (Hercules Fisherman, Paul Tanner, Sarah Mount & Nikita Korotaev) for their entry Jatrobot:
“In view of impending shortage of food, to build sustainability, we would like to deploy as many sensors as possible to get …
Now that the event is getting close, it’s time to start revving up your creativity engines… there are some brilliant Hack Day Challenges on the programme this year, along with many excellent prizes!
The OTA12 Hack Day Challenges
The Bletchley Park Challenge
Devise a solution whereby one …
Introduction
Over the next five years, we’re going to see a dramatic breakthrough in M2M applications as organisations realise the unheralded potential it represents for revenue generation and improved customer satisfaction. Vodafone is working in a number of business sectors in order to develop Global M2M …
We’ve got so many cool things on the Over the Air programme this year, Ariel Waldman will be launching the event with a Keynote on Hacking Science & Space Exploration, Adam Cohen-Rose will be running his popular LEGO Mindstorms hacking session again this year, and both …
Introduction
Barely a week goes by without some mention, in the press, of a major cyber incident. Whilst a few years ago the incidents being reported were generic “malware infects 10,000 of users”, today we see widespread reporting of targeted cyber operations.
Users now face an unprecedented …
Introduction
Kirin is a second generation cross-platform toolkit for iOS and Android development.
Building mobile apps is what we do. As clients started to commission apps across iOS, Android, Qt, WebOS (RIP) and Windows Phone 7, we used PhoneGap, we played with Sencha and Titanium and we …
Introduction
Learning is a large part of what happens at Bletchley Park. Visitors may not realise that our extensive education department welcomes schools, colleges and universities nearly every day. In our dedicated facility young people have the opportunity to learn about the history of cryptography, from the Caesar (or …
Brought to you by Steve Worswick, frequent medal winner in the now-ended annual Chatterbox Challenge, this Challenge is not strictly-speaking a Turing Test as the entrants don’t have to pretend to be human, but they will be scored on how well they carry on a …
