Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon

May 9-10, 2015, San Francisco

Noisebridge, Sudo Room, Mozilla SF

Come and make something we will all regret.

Completed hacks!

Hacks are arranged in no particular order. If you'd like to edit the description, image, link, or contact info for your hack, contact stupidhackathon@mit.edu.

Thanks to everyone who worked on a project, attended the presentations, or just stopped by at some point over the weekend. Support your local hackerspace!

In the press

#disrupt

by Arlen Abraham, Sarah Tappon, and Andrew Kurtz

Watch the demo!

Step 1: tweet #disrupt
Step 2: ???
Step 3:

Spotifōn

by Julia West and Devin Brady

Watch the demo!

"Finally a way to listen to music on your phone."

TickleMyPickle

by David Zafrani

Zippable Banana

by Will Doenlen

The Twonic

by Logan Williams

Some people wear short sleeved shirts. Some people like long sleeves. And some people prefer extra long sleeves.

Bishounen Steve Jobs Romance Novel iPhone App to Learn Algorithms

by Romy

Urban camouflage

by Robert Han

Comparar

by Wyatt Hepler, Kurt Hepler, Joshua Essex, Clementine Jacoby, Taylor Jacoby

Watch the demo!

Everything you don't want to know about anything.

ambient iphone light for use when listening to music at night

by Wilson Zhao

Watch the demo!

Dude it's literally just an ambient light lol

FOMOist

by Bodhi

Pupil tracking and text recognition

by Kelly Peng

Hoboji

by Benjamin Gleitzman

Hoboji are symbols to augment vacation rental sites (AirBnb, Couchsurfing, Craigslist, etc.) with supplementary information that may be taboo or possibly censored by the platforms.

Computing zero to arbitrary precision

by Kyle Miller

We present to the Academie a program which computes zero, which we will denote by z, to arbitrary precision.

Schedule

Saturday, May 9th, 2015

[ 12pm - 2pm: Pre-party @ Noisebridge -- GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES ]
2pm - 2:30pm: Hackathon kickoff! @ Noisebridge
2:30pm - 11:59pm: "Hacking"! (See 'Locations' for site schedules)
3pm - 5pm: Sponsor API tech talks @ Noisebridge

Sunday, May 10th, 2015

12am - 2pm: "Hacking"! (See 'Locations' for site schedules)
3pm - 5pm: Hackathon presentations at the Roxie!

Locations

Places to hack

Noisebridge
- 2169 Mission St, San Francisco
- 3 min walk from 16th Street BART
- Open 2-11:59pm Sat, 12am-2pm Sun
- Organizer contact: stupidhackathon-noisebridge@mit.edu
Sudo Room
- 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland
- 11 min walk from MacArthur BART
- Open 2-9pm Sat, 9am-2pm Sun
- Organizer contact: stupidhackathon-sudoroom@mit.edu
Mozilla SF
- 2 Harrison St., Suite 175, San Francisco
- 12 min walk from Embarcadero BART (or take Muni Metro right there)
- Open 2-9pm Sat, 9am-2pm Sun
- Organizer contact: stupidhackathon-mozilla@mit.edu

Demo Day

The Roxie
- 3117 16th St, San Francisco
- 4 min walk from 16th Street BART
- Presentations will run 3-5pm Sun

Information

This is an independently organized event, hosted with the support of the Noisebridge community & our friends at Sudo Room / Mozilla. Please feel free to contact us at stupidhackathon@mit.edu with any questions or comments.

Be inspired, as we were, by the terrible and strange creations at the original (NYC) Stupid Hackathon.

We have a Facebook group! Wow.

And a page on the always-adventuresome Noisebridge wiki!

Noisebridge's anti-harassment policy will, of course, be in full effect for the duration of the hackathon. Noisebridge's community standards also provide useful guidelines one would do well to mind. Be excellent to each other.

Links for attendees

Project submission form! (requires Google account)

meatspace, for chatting with animated webcam gifs

Image credits

"Raw Meat Circuitry" by Brian Clifton & Kina Smith
"How to say Mitt Romney in different languages" by Owen Weeks
cute placekitten by BigTallGuy

"Prize" "Categories"

The Stealing Economy

Quantified Not-Self

Should It Be Making That Sound?

Autonomous Human-Powered Vehicles

Targetting The "Tycoon" Space

Disrupting The Body

Hyperlocal Paranoia

Crushing Your Burn Rate

Smart-Phones

Do It By Yourself (Alone)

Delighting The Designer

Peter Thiel

Fire Means It's Working

Servitude-As-A-Service

Like React.js But For Cooks

Meat Robot

Robot Meat

Incongruous Tactility

Kickstarterzak

Cause For Cancer

Monetizing The Eschaton

Flesh Skeuomorphism

Revolutionary Finance

Internet Of Things-In-Themselves

Scatological APIs

Targetting The "Hikikomori" Space

Approaching The Intertwingularity

edibleX

Bitcoin-Miner Unionization

"Apps"

Compostable Infrastructure

Radical Self-Exclusion

 ___________________________________________________
(  _______________________________________________  )
( /                                               \ )
( |  _/_ /                      _/_             / | )
( |  /  /_  o _     o _     _   /  . . _   o __/  | )
( | <__/ /_<_/_)_  <_/_)_  /_)_<__(_/_/_)_<_(_/_  | )
( |                                  /            | )
( \                                 '             / )
(  -----------------------------------------------  )
(         \   ^__^                                  )
(          \  (oo)\_______                          )
(             (__)\       )\/\                      )
(                 ||----w |                         )
(                 ||     ||                         )
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        o   ^__^
         o  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon

May 9-10, 2015, San Francisco

Noisebridge, Sudo Room, Mozilla SF

Completed hacks!

In the press

by Arlen Abraham, Sarah Tappon, and Andrew Kurtz

by Julia West and Devin Brady

by Marina

by Colleen Josephson

by Greyson Parrelli, Michael Toth, Ben Chen, Heidi Muth, Sasha Sheng and Jacqueline Huang

by James Halliday

by Michael Toth

by Joel and Steve

TickleMyPickle

by David Zafrani

Zippable Banana

by Will Doenlen

by Elliott Thoreby

by Logan Williams

by Torrey Nommesen and Pearl Lee

by Sina Khanifar

by Abram

by Erin, Matt, Katie, Jon and Rich

by Freddy Dopfel, James Young, Ning Wan and Bobi Rakova

by Trav Fryer

by Rich Jones

by Daniel Roesler

by Romy

Urban camouflage

by Robert Han

by Mike Mintz and Michael Huang

by Stephanie Rosales & Martha Feiler

by Juan

by Alex Peake

by Wyatt Hepler, Kurt Hepler, Joshua Essex, Clementine Jacoby, Taylor Jacoby

by Christa Hartsock

by Christina Bengtsson

by Wilson Zhao

by Claudia Vilardy and Dustin Selman

by Sam

by Simon

by Zach Latta

FOMOist

by Bodhi

by Nevyn Bengtsson

by Chris Varenhorst

by Lynne Okada, Andrew Brandt and Rudy Gomes

by Carl Gorringe

by Colin Wright

by Heidi Harman & Emma Koszinowski

by Kelly Peng

by John Shutt

by Benjamin Gleitzman

by Kyle Miller

Schedule

Saturday, May 9th, 2015

Sunday, May 10th, 2015

Locations

Places to hack

Demo Day

Information

Links for attendees

Image credits

Sponsors

"Prize" "Categories"