Hackathon's experience that it is most important to understand the feelings of the organizer

Introduction

Hello. A person who just makes what he wants to make without worrying about sociality. (Of course there are times when I care)

** This is the third day to post to this Weekend Engineer Advent Calendar 2019. ** ** You are posting what you made on Qiita once a week. ~~ I feel that the contents are getting more and more messy ~~ I would like to be evaluated a little more.

By the way, what I made this time is ** "Sparta Room" **. This was developed by the team at KDDI's student hackathon KDGHACKS in early December.

Target person

--People looking for IoT material --People who have a frustrated feeling about the recent hackathon ――People who felt that the title seemed interesting

What i made

Sparta Room is a product that allows you to operate home appliances from your smartphone or PC like this. However, when I try to operate a home appliance, I get programming, math, and English problems. By solving those problems, the operation is finally sent to the infrared remote controller, and the home appliances move.

This completes a super-stoic room where you can be forced to study in order to live your daily life, such as when you turn on the lights, turn on the air conditioner, turn on the TV, and so on.

Motivation

** "I want to be the strongest engineer!" ** To do that, you should solve programming problems every day, study English every day, and maybe study math! !! But I can't continue on my own. .. I'm lazy. .. .. What should I do. .. .. I came up with the idea of this product to solve the problems of all engineers who have such troubles.

Of course, in the actual hackathon, I had other ideas, but I chose this because it is the most familiar issue (as an engineer) and I think it is unique as an idea.

In addition, above all, the work of the past winner was very original, so ** I'm sure this The hackathon has the highest weight of originality among the many evaluation axes! There was a hypothesis that **.

Technical description

The app is made of Flask and is deployed on Heroku. In the app, the type of problem is set according to the home appliances that are operated, and the problem is displayed randomly from the outside each time. (At this stage, only fixed problems are displayed) By solving it, communication is sent to the dedicated infrared remote controller, and the home appliances actually move.

Why wasn't it evaluated

In conclusion, I couldn't win. Below, I will post my thoughts for those who will be in the hackathon in the future.

The evaluation axis was satisfied (should)

The evaluation axes of this hackathon were as follows.

—— Ideas have originality and dreams --Did you work with passion? ――Did you demonstrate your technical capabilities? ――Whether your life will be convenient or enriched ――Did the participants at the venue agree with you? --There is a working demo

It was said that these would be evaluated comprehensively. ** In terms of this product, it seemed to be highly evaluated even from a relatively relative perspective, except for the question of "whether life will be convenient or enriched." ** **

I couldn't understand the feelings of the organizer

Actually, this hackathon had the theme of ** "Let's design an exciting space with IoT" **, but the only IoT-like thing in this product was communication to the infrared sensor. Looking at the 1st place team and any other winning team, they all used something like a sensor. Honestly, it's good with the built-in camera of the PC, right? Thinking practically, you don't need a sensor there, right? Even in that situation, I had the impression that I was using something like a XX sensor as much as possible.

** It's a personal impression, but I think it would have been better to focus more on the feelings of the organizer than on the evaluation axis such as practicality and originality **

In this hackathon, the organizers were all companies selling sensor products such as KDDI. From the situation that they bother to kill holidays, spend money on sponsorship costs, gather students (who do not have much technical ability compared to professionals), and hold events with a real development period of less than one day * * It seems that it was important to understand that we are not looking for practical products and that we want the company's products to be used as much as possible. ** **

(Regardless of this hackathon, I feel that practicality is hardly expected in short hackathons such as those held on holidays.)

Virtual image of sociality

In addition, the word "sociality" was mentioned several times in the judges' feedback comments. There was no such item directly on the evaluation axis, but it seems that sociality influenced the winning.

At the end

** I personally like hackathons as an opportunity to meet new friends and create silly products that you would never normally make alone. ** **

However, on the other hand, recently, rather than just making interesting things, I feel that only things that are likely to be social and social are being evaluated.

It seems quite natural, but this type of hackathon is no different from work and research on weekdays (formally constructing ideas backwards from sociality and market size, and after winning an award, do nothing. (No) I feel that it is no different from a vidicon.

I also feel personally happy if there are more hackathons in which the audience decides the winner based only on the axis of making what they want to make and whether it is interesting or not.

So ** I decided to hold it myself! I made a compass page on here for the time being! Details other than the schedule have not been decided yet, but if you are interested in it, please let us know if you only plan to participate, and we will contact you as soon as the details are decided. Thank you! ** **

Thank you for reading until the end. We are sending out personally developed ones on Twitter, so if you are interested please follow us or contact us!

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