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title = "TADHack Global 2016"
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path = "/blog/2016/10/20/tadhack-global-2016"
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author = ["Oddvar Lovaas"]
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category = ["General"]
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<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/TADHack-2016-Global-3-300x244.png" alt="tadhack-2016-global-3-300x244" width="300" height="244" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1796" />
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TADHack Global 2016 was held across 30+ different locations last weekend. The goal in the TADHack is to create a hack over the weekend, using one or more of the APIs provided by the sponsors - of which Matrix is one.
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Over 2600 people participated, and over 150 hacks were created! I think it's safe to say that TADHack Global 2016 was a great success!
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The Matrix team were on location in Shoreditch, London, where we helped people with their hacks (while also keeping an eye on the online <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#tadhack-tadmentor-matrix:matrix.org">TADHack Matrix room</a> to help remote entries).
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Several teams used Matrix in their hack, both in London and elsewhere:
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In Lisbon, Luis Tonicha and Tiago Dias created "Athos": a bot for shopping assistance. The bot accepts various queries which it tries to answer using Carrefour's API. The team also created a Telestax bridge, so you can send the queries via SMS! This hack won the Lisbon location prize! Watch their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sskei22iquQ&t=7m20s">presentation here</a>.
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A team in Moscow did a hack using Matrix, where they created a kind of MUD in Matrix. Unfortunately, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Y7VmeWX5c&t=3h40m20s">presentation</a> is not currently available.
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Yelly was a remote entry by Fikri Fırat, Utku Yavuz, and Barış Erbil. It is a voice message based chat application inspired by the nature of shouting as a way of communication. See their <a href="https://youtu.be/Q7ePIZ3Y5hg">presentation here</a>.
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In Kiev, Ukraine, the DataArt team (Artem Malykhin, Pavlina Bevz, Igor Maximenko, and Eugene Grachev) created a hack called "Web conference for Smart TV": an app for Smart TVs for VoIP conferencing. See the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK1DwvRvdd4&t=13m50s">presentation here</a>.
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Over in Chicago, Sergio Gil, Caterina Lazaro, and Anup Mohan created "Little Endian Kitchen": Shopping management for your kitchen. The idea was to have a webcam in your fridge that can check which items are "missing" (e.g. which ones need replacing) and even provide a VoIP stream so you can check yourself (even using VR-goggles!) - see the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiIiO6vs_So&t=32m46s">presentation here</a>.
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In Berlin, there were quite a few hacks. One of these was called "Clipboard Monkey" and was made by Tim Unkrig, Tammo Behrends, Markus Kerschkewicz. This team created a decentralized, universal and fully encrypted clipboard using Matrix. See the full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrconLsom00&t=20m20s">presentation here</a>. We awarded this hack one of the two global prizes of a MacBook Air! They were also joint winners of the Berlin location prize - well done!
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Finally, in London we had several teams working on Matrix hacks. There was the "Moodlight" hack by Astrid de Gasté, Ryan Lintott, Tomas Zezula, Istvan Hoffer, and Jing Chan. The team created a sentiment analysis bot connecting Riot (now Element)/Matrix to Philips Hue, and analysing the comments in a room using a <a href="https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/nlp/SocialSentimentAnalysis">Social Sentiment Analysis</a> library - blue light for positive comments and red for less positive chat. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41RbOKTrbE&t=29m">presentation here</a>. This hack won the London Location Prize!
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<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cu5BNyoXEAAmexk-300x225.jpg" alt="cu5bnyoxeaamexk" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1794" />
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Also in London, there was Immanuel Baskaran's "Hangouts Bridge" hack, which bridged Matrix to Google Hangouts! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41RbOKTrbE&t=17m31s">Presentation here</a>. In classic "dangerous demo" fashion, Google Hangouts experienced an outage just when the demo was happening. We awarded this hack the Special Matrix Prize - congrats Immanuel!
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"Matrix of Things" by Matt Williams, and Yin Yee Kan won the other Matrix global prize, which was a MacBook Air. They created a minimal Matrix client on a ESPB266 micro controller, and added a proximity sensor feature to Riot (now Element) so that two different devices can notice when they are in close proximity. See the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41RbOKTrbE&t=11m30s">presentation and demo here</a>!
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Congrats to all the participants - we hope you had a lot of fun! The <a href="http://blog.tadhack.com/2016/10/16/tadhack-2016-winners/">full list of winners</a> is available over on the TADHack blog.
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And if the hackathon has inspired you to hack on Matrix, please come chat to us in <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#matrix-dev:matrix.org">#matrix-dev</a> or the <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#tadhack-tadmentor-matrix:matrix.org">TADHack Matrix room</a>!
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