A few weeks back, CIIE hosted our first ever hardware hackathon – Makeathon – in partnership with MakerFest and Intel Education. For 48 hours, our pristine conference and seminar rooms were converted into electronics labs, replete with cool-looking gadgets, circuit boards, wires, breadboards, LEDs, and a very geeky crowd of over 70 hackers! Participants included a good mix of students, software engineers and hardware enthusiasts. There were a few pariticipants who were tenants in our coworking space – Ideapad, but most surprising of all, there were a few IIMA students as well!
The organizers had brought together a very impressive collection of hardware from various partners for the hackers to hack. There was a Google Glass, a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a LEAP Motion controller, a NueroSky MindWave headset, a Chromecast dongle, and even a 3D printer (which was kept at the FabLab, CEPT University). In addition to…
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