The wonderful people at WorldPay had a hackathon, and Consult Hyperion (along with the Visa Collab and MongoDB) were one of the sponsors of the event, so I got to be a judge too. It was, I have to say, great fun.
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You can see some of photos from the event here. There were 140+ “hackers” supported by mentors from WorldPay and the sponsor. The mentors helped the hackers to understand and use the WorldPAy IoT API so that they could get going on their ideas.
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I went along to help to get things going along with my Consult Hyperion colleagues Matt and Stefan.
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We’d had brought along a 3D printer for the hackers to use, so Matt gave a Friday night tutorial on how to create digital 3D objects and get them turned into actual physical objects. Pretty cool.
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The hackers had more tutorials on Saturday then they had the rest of Saturday and Sunday morning to develop their ideas. I cam back on the Sunday to join with the rest of the judging team. Here I am with Nick from WorldPay getting started on the judging process.
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I won’t steal WorldPay’s thunder but announcing who the winners and runners up were here, you can see this over at their web site.
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