1337 Bus makes rousing debut
- Interesting packages developed from lower back of thoughts thoughts
- iTrain and Cyberview partner to create specific event
It changed into a primary for me. Being on a bus for an occasion.
It turned into the inaugural 1337 Bus Hackathon and it attracted near 30 enthusiastic humans ranging from those who can write software program code, to commercial enterprise improvement people and designers who can create compelling visual designs for the software program written by using said geeks.
To say that the enthusiastic bunch raised the roof of the bus might be an exaggeration, but at Taman Titiwangsa, the bus did lose its sunroof due to a dangerously low-placing energy line. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the exposed sunroof did seem to energise the groups sitting behind the bus as the noise stages went up quite a piece from that stop.
According to Hackathon organizer iTrain’s founder, Bikesh L, the factor of the Hackathon is to get humans together for a quick, extreme concept-improvement procedure.
“A lot of them have ideas they had been kicking round in their heads but they have always stayed there,” stated the CEO of the software program developer and training residence. “This Hackathon is a catalyst to get them to act on their ideas, and if it does, to hopefully spur them to get severe approximately the ideas.”
Indeed, one of the individuals said his motivation in taking part was simple. Says Arsyan Ismail (percent, left), “I want to code, I want to hack, and at an occasion like this, you may get collectively with a lot of truly clever human beings with distinctive ability units, brainstorm and work together. And the excellent component, you can get to showcase your work right now, get tremendous comments and hopefully benefit a bit bit of recognition.”
That, Arsyan did.
Meanwhile, the reason of launching the event from the bus changed into to show the contributors that ideas could be gelled collectively everywhere. For the occasion sponsor, Cyberview Sdn Bhd, the objective turned into to boost to the members that it too is a key participant inside the tech ecosystem, and not just the land owner of Cyberjaya.
The 1337 Bus departed from Petaling Jaya, a suburb 30km from Kuala Lumpur, earlier than shifting to the metropolis middle, and resulted in Cyberjaya, a township this is a part of the Multimedia Super Corridor, Malaysia’s high generation park, located about 70km from Kuala Lumpur.
At Cyberjaya, in which most of the motion and exhilaration befell, three of the six groups which have been shaped for the occasion, walked away with 3 prizes each. The first two groups gained the Sony Vita PSP units, a “super cool prize,” according to one of the winners, whilst the 1/3 vicinity team gained vouchers to live at Cyberview Lodge and Spa.
Arsyan and his team emerged winners with a chilling app known as PassOn. Perfect for those amongst us who're meticulous planners, consisting of our eventual passing on.
A delighted Arsyan says, “Finally, after all the Hackathons I even have taken element in, I won some thing,” adding that the early adopters of such an app are those who've without a doubt prepared for their eventual deaths. Arsyan recognizes that this is a niche product and that it's miles, “now not truly for regular people."
“[The app is meant] generally for human beings who've quite a few on-line belongings, are manifestly Internet-savvy and value their belongings sufficient that they need to skip it on, consequently the app name PassOn,” says Arsyan, who's additionally a co-founder and CTO of Nest Sdn Bhd, a promising start-up with a product called VoucHEREs.
The 2nd prize went to a trio: Programmers Scott Thoo and Ivan Lim, with Geraldine Mak as the artist. They have been adventurous sufficient to come up with an app constructed around new neuroscience-based totally era.
Dubbed Zen Diver, the app is a game wherein the participant assumes the position of a penguin evading large monsters inside the deep sea. A participant can manipulate his diving intensity by means of controlling his thoughts; the greater calm he is, the extra at peace he feels, the better his possibilities of triumphing the game.
Lim (p.c, middle) says, “It sounds smooth at first, till you begin encountering massive creatures. Now, how long can you continue to be calm for?”
This recreation become developed the use of the NeuroSky Mindwave headset and Unity3D. The Mindwave headset is an EEG (electroencephalography) headset that video display units mind interest like focus, how relaxed one is, in addition to diverse mind wave patterns (alpha, beta, gamma waves, and so forth).
Lim says he found out that the era remains very young, including that it’s still a very long way from the kind of mind-reading we see in sci-fi movies. “But in spite of what is available inside the market now, there are lots of exciting ability packages for builders to discover,” he says.
In 1/3 area was SINI (in Bahasa Malaysia which means “right here”) that's an iPhone utility this is constructed on top of the concept of a social network aggregator and is an try to organize or simplify a consumer's social networking revel in in a new way.
According to Tang Tung Ai (images, left), a whole lot of the records from the customers’ social network feed is aggregated based at the geo-region of the person. His app affords the consumer with the addtional choice to choose the data type based totally on social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, and Foursquare.
Users can also filter the feed by using choosing the scale of the information radius, say between 10km to 5,000km.
Noting that it became a completely unique enjoy for his crew, as all of them got here from one-of-a-kind corporations, Tung Ai feels that the early adopters for SINI will be any social community savvy netizen who needs help to aggregate and customize all his or hers social associated feeds, promotions, photographs and topics of hobby.
Tung Ai, who is the founder and technical director of ICON Mobi, a software program residence focusing on cellular application development, notes that every one 3 in his group are technically-oriented and were inside the levels of launching their personal start-ups.
Winners were announced about 10pm at the bus and it made for a merry ride returned to the Petaling Jaya choose-up factor in which it had all started at eight.30am.