{"id":4706,"date":"2012-07-30T23:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T06:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2012-07-30T23:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T06:11:38","slug":"seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeed Hack-A-Thon S0E0 (season0 episode 0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4707\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/olympus-digital-camera-38\/\"><\/a>Our engineers are too busy building stuff, while our customers and partners keep giving us feedback (thank you!). But we should try out our own products in depth to keep them evolving in the right direction. Also, as our RnD team enlarges and products get more and more complex, we need more efficient collaboration with limited time frame. A great cure for these is Hack-A-thon!\u00a0We will hold it every month and publish the result and open source the applications. This hackathon starts from needs from our material inventory: SMT component counter!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4712\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/olympus-digital-camera-41\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4712\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/olympus-digital-camera-41\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-up-22-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4713\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/requirements-of-the-customer-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Requirements-of-the-customer1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4711\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/jasen-introduces-makeblock\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jasen-introduces-Makeblock-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4713\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/requirements-of-the-customer-2\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4711\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/jasen-introduces-makeblock\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time: July 10, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Place: Seeed Studio<\/p>\n<p>Participants: Seeed staff, led by three engineers (Simon, LG and Albert)<\/p>\n<p>Preparations: 1.Teamed up (Six members in each team including the leader)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a02. Named the team (Crazy Snail, Hairy Iron Man, Muddle-headed Counting)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a03. Customers (staff from SCM) described the requirements of the product.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4. Jasen(founder of Makeblock)introduced features of Makeblock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4715\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/team-crazy-snail-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4715\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TEAM-crazy-snail-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then it was time for the excited participants to get their hands dirty. They had to deal with many challenges, including mechanical design, writing codes, and so on.\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4716\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/team-hairy-iron-man-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4716\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TEAM-hairy-iron-man-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The materials they used included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&amp;search_in_description=0&amp;keyword=Makeblock&amp;x=16&amp;y=13\">Makeblock<\/a>, SMT reels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&amp;search_in_description=0&amp;keyword=Grove\">Grove series<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&amp;search_in_description=0&amp;keyword=seeeduino\"> Seeeduino<\/a> etc. Each team could get the materials from the depot, without limitation on the quantity.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TEAM-muddled-head-counting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After hours of designing, constructing, developing and improving their projects, each team was elated to show their prototypes. It was amazing that they managed it in just a few hours. The team leaders also shared their experiences in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4718\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/1-7\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4720\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/3-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"159\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4717\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/seeed-hack-a-thon-s0e0-season0-episode-0\/1-6\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, that\u2019s not the end yet. The prototype will be improved and when it meets practical needs, we will publish the recipe. Let\u2019s stay tuned and see how things go in the next episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our engineers are too busy building stuff, while our customers and partners keep giving us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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