Science Hack Day Boston
January 24-25, 2015
More info: http://sciencehackdayboston.wordpress.com/
Location
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA.
Stuff to Hack with:
Request tools, skills, etc here
If you know of any good science-related APIs or datasets, please add them to these pages:
Organizers
- Edward Kim (edwardk@mit.edu)
- Jessica Polka (jessica.polka@gmail.com)
- Willow Brugh (willow.bl00@gmail.com)
Twitter: @SHDBos, #SHDBos
Articles about Science Hack Day Boston 2015:
Add your rough hack/project ideas:
Got an idea for a science hack? Got a brainwave for a mashup? Add it here. If you see an idea you'd like to hack/collaborate on, add your name to it!
Final Hack Submissions:
(For use on the 2nd day of the hackathon - we'll use this list to determine presentations at the end!)
(Leave item #1 as a template for people to copy please - we'll start at #2 as the first 'real' entry)
{Name of Project} - {URL (optional)}
- {Teammate #1 Name} - {Teammate #1 Email}; {Teammate #2 Name} - {Teammate #2 Email}; ...
- {Optional subpoint - brief project description}
Linguistic Similarity Index
- Amandalynne Paullada (pau@brandeis.edu)
- Using data from WALS, given a language, find the languages that are typologically most similar.
Dynamic Note Taker
- George Sun - mr_sunny@mit.edu; David Wang - wangd3@gmail.com
- A dynamic platform that parses your notes to provide information from other knowledge and data banks such as wikipedia, wolframalpha, edX, and others!
Myo/JMol thing; Materials TweetBot; ISBN pi thing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdq1lifGZQ ; https://twitter.com/mat_e_tweeter ; http://pi-book-recommender.herokuapp.com/
- Edward Kim - edwardk@mit.edu; Katherine Rosenfeld - krosenf@gmail.com (for the Myo/Jmol project)
- A few different unrelated projects because attention span too short
StarFinder
- Wolfram Moebius (@WolframMoebius) + James Truslow (j.g.truslow@gmail.com)
- When a kid is born, there's some star directly overhead, somewhere. Find it.
BioPrinter
- Daniel Burkhardt (dburkhar@umass.edu); Evan Pipho (evan.pipho@gmail.com); Ted Pudlik (tpudlik@gmail.com); Ari Roshko (ari.roshko@gmail.com); Pascal Timshel (pascal.timshel@gmail.com)
- Design and build an Arduino-based 2D printer for depositing patterns of cells.
Crystallocrafty
- Jessica Polka - jessica.polka@gmail.com; Brendan Colón - bcolon156@gmail.com; Eugene Lee - ellq@mit.edu
- Writing an automated code to extract protein structures for generating crochet patterns.
4-Dimensional Property Visualization of Table of Elements
- Michael Gibson(gibson.michael.a@gmail.com); Sam Shanes (samshames92@gmail.com); David Rodriguez Fuentes (davidrf09@gmail.com); Wen Jie Ong (wjong@mit.edu).
- Design and build a web application that simultaneously displays four elemental properties for all elements. Approximately 100 properties were obtained for all elements from Wolfram Mathematica.
Download, unzip file, and open plotter.html in browser.
4-D Property Visualization.zip
Information from SHDBoston 2013 Below:
Science Hack Day was held for the first time in Boston on October 19-20, 2013! Check out http://sciencehackdayboston.wordpress.com/ for more details. Email Jessica Polka at jessica.polka@gmail.com if you're interested in sponsoring Science Hack Day Boston 2014!
Twitter: @SHDBos, #SHDBos
Facebook: facebook.com/sciencehackdayboston
Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/2321044@N25/
Recordings of opening talks and hack demos: http://www.youtube.com/user/gwoborg
Visual summary by Willow: http://prezi.com/e67w29qt-viu/science-hack-day-boston/
Articles about Science Hack Day Boston 2013:
Registration is closed. It was here: http://sciencehackdayboston.eventbrite.com/!
Lost and found
LOST
- Mac VGA adapter with "awf" written in faded sharpie - jessica.polka@gmail.com can coordinate
- A book titled culture and imperialism. Please let me know if you found it. hayat221@gmail.com
FOUND
- a small carved wooden portrait - jessica.polka@gmail.com
- sunglasses, very sporty - jessica.polka@gmail.com
- charger for mac book – has been placed next to the ping pong table
Add your rough hack/project ideas:
Got an idea for a science hack? Got a brainwave for a mashup? Add it here. If you see an idea you'd like to hack/collaborate on, add your name to it!
Completed hacks
Will appear on the wiki here here.
Science Hack Day is a two-day event that brings together enthusiastic scientists, developers, designers, and nerds of all kinds to facilitate an intense burst of collaboration on exciting projects at the intersection of science and technology.
SHD Boston will join a grassroots network of over a dozen Science Hack Days worldwide over the past three years. These events have generated hacks ranging from a tabletop cloud chamber to a visualization tool for networks of coauthors on scientific papers, from a mask that generates feelings of synesthesia to a strawberry DNA extraction protocol that results in a delicious cocktail. These hacks serve to generate excitement and interest in science, and even the more playful projects can have more serious applications: for example, software developed for detecting beard length was later used to track cosmic rays.
Participants need no prior experience, and can come with their own project, join an existing team, or generate new ideas together on the spot.
Organizers
Please contact us if you are interested in helping organize!
Location
SHDBoston will be held on the beautiful Northwest Building on the Harvard Campus.
Schedule
available here
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