24 Hours of IT Creativity
Edgewood Services took 1st
place at DOU Hackathon competition
November 6, 2011
DOU Hackathon is the event, where developers meet to do collaborative
computer programming. Edgewood Services’s team of engineers participated in Hackathon
competition in November 2011. They stayed up all night to develop and present a
finished product, competing with developers from other IT companies of
Ukraine.
At first, our team discussed what
project is better to perform. We decided
to develop computer control system for
the toy helicopter from scratch (C++ on Windows
platform; C, Assembler on Arduino platform). To perform this, we had only 24
hours to write a working application and demonstrate it to the participants.
After the first successful stages of
development, we came across some challenges. We had the inappropriate description of the protocol
of the helicopters control (from the
other model of helicopters). Thus, we had to do reverse engineering in order to
find out how to control our type of helicopter. After recording and finding
regularities in the stream of commands from the factory remote control, a lot
of records of flights were collected. When we decided to play the records from
the PC, the helicopter exactly repeated the previous flight. As a result, we presented abilities of our software: control of the helicopter and
replay of the previously recorded flight.
We were happy to know that the majority of participants voted in favor of
Edgewood Services project. Our team took the 1st
place at this DOU Hackathon competition.
What did we experience from this
competition? Great feeling of being a team, of performing problem solution and results in a short period of time.
Edgewood Services team on DOU Hackathon:
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| The project starts |
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| Our helicopter is being prepared for its first flight |
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| Andrew checks the first flights |
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Konstantin
continues to work
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| Michail is working on reverse engineering |
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| Final project presentation - the 1st place! |
View
all photos from Dou Hackathon competition:
The first Hackathon was held in
Ukraine in June 2011. All developers enjoyed it so much that now this IT
round-clock marathon is organized
regularly.
