A weekend of intense prototyping and hacking at TADHack-mini Chicago is over, and we were very happy to again see some really interesting projects using Matrix!
Team ‘Vivo’ – Nestor Bermudez and Arin Sime – used Matrix, Tropo, and Telestax to create an Apple Watch app that notifies your loved ones when you are having a heart attack. Find more information here – and a recording of their presentation here. This project won the Telestax prize.
Charles Solar and Jiang Shuyang used Matrix and Flowroute resources for a platform independent app called ‘Samaritan’ which allows users to post help requests like “I got a flat tire!” or “My computer crashed!”. Others can then call / text / video chat with them to solve their problem. A video of their presentation can be seen here. This hack won the Flowroute prize.
Vladimir Beloborodov demoed his award-winning Matrix-hack from WebRTC Paris: using Matrix just to set up a WebRTC connection between his iPad and robot, thus proving that you can have a robot with telepresence functions without having to depend on a remote server – see his demo here.
Adnan Baleh, Caterina Lazaro, Javier Garcia, Ernesto G. Grabwosky, Sergio Gil and Marion Le Callonnec – Team ‘ProbatioNerds’ – created a mobile Matrix app to control the provided Trossen Robotics HR-OS1 Humanoid Endoskeleton robot over the Internet – even making it dance the Macarena! Presentation video can be seen here. We awarded team ‘ProbatioNerds’ the TADHack Matrix prize – an HR-OS1 – and we hope the team and the robot will keep learning new tricks and moves!
Daniel presenting the HR-OS1 to team ‘ProbatioNerds’ (Photo courtesy of Alan Quayle)
We keep being impressed by the quality of projects developed at TADHacks – remember, in practice you only have around 12 hours to work on your hack. Congrats to all who participated – and thanks to Alan for arranging it!
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