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William Viker

Database Administrator @ Opera Software ASA

Hackathon winners!

Thursday, 6. December 2007, 14:22:46

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Woooo! Me and quai won this years Hackaton awards! :smile:



With..this! :D Built it in two days with some secret opera stuff (sorry, cant tell!), javascript and some c-code. Assembled the whole car from a kit, and it's controllable in amusing ways ;D

Moveable camera up/down/sideways, moveable lights (following the camera position?), steering left/right, speed reverse/forward ..in any speed! etc.

As I said, I can't mention the details, but its awesome! ;D



Aaaand.. the original project was only a controllable camera without the car.. :smile:



EDIT: HEY! TheAtilla helped us out alot! Thanks man! :smile:

Office Door LabelDamn! I bought a house! :)

Comments

TheAtilla 6. December 2007, 14:41

PWNAGE! Great work guys :smile:

vetler 6. December 2007, 16:07

Indeed, they pretty much outclassed everyone else.

EspenAO 6. December 2007, 16:39

So cool it hurts.

TheAtilla 6. December 2007, 16:47

Opera powered *nod*. That's how we are. Cool, painfully cool!

EspenAO 6. December 2007, 16:57

I think the (empty?) Red Bull bottles really tops it off. P:

willosof 6. December 2007, 17:16

haha ;D i brought 10 redbull-cans and replaced the stuff in the mini-bar in the hotel-room! ;D

...I also think we were the only ones that had a soldering iron by our window, along with other similar stuff and excessive amounts of tools ;D

TheAtilla 6. December 2007, 17:40

Yeah - that's cool: Beer bottle next to the car (work in progress?), red-bulls next to the award - it all fits perfectly. I'm sure it's part of willo's diabolical plan to show off with the reward , haha.

danigoldman 6. December 2007, 19:25

Cool!

YtseJam 7. December 2007, 07:08

We demand a video demonstration!! :smile:

eiriks 7. December 2007, 07:33

We sure do demand a video demonstration, bring it! :smile:

serious 7. December 2007, 07:53

*supporting wish for video*

p01 7. December 2007, 10:27

Kudos! Really cool entry.
IMO only 2 other entries had a real WOW! effect. Yours was : OMGBBQ!

virtuelvis 7. December 2007, 12:28

As a jury member, I can only say that the entire jury were totally flabbergasted by your entry.

(And the fact that you seem to have continued hacking between being evaluated by the jury, and presenting it in the morning session)

YtseJam 7. December 2007, 14:06

LOL?? They did?! Haha!

FataL 7. December 2007, 16:54

Cool!

Now bring us a video! :smile:

Hades32 23. April 2009, 15:05

Now that this entry is more than 1,5 years old, can you tell us the Opera secret?

willosof 11. June 2009, 11:35

I'll tell you the June 16th ;-)

Hades32 17. June 2009, 16:48

LOL, you REALLY installed Opera (Unite) on that RC Car? :D

TheAtilla 18. June 2009, 09:21

On ANY device, remember:)

Chas4 18. June 2009, 14:10

"On ANY device, remember" SO true

Where is the video +1

tomassplatch 27. June 2009, 08:49

Way too cool! Now that unite is out, will you write more about what you actually did?

willosof 1. July 2009, 19:42

I will. Just have to find the time to do it :-)

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