by George Gkitsas and Christos Papantonis Scope Usually, the end nodes of an IoT setup have two responsibilities, one is to monitor a process and the other one to control or to act on it. Since the end nodes are remote devices, there is a need for some kind of connectivity in order to communicate … Continue reading TADHack Athens: IoT SMS Monitoring & Controlling
TADHack has grown yet again, with currently 3300 registrations, quite a few locations had close to 300, and of course TADHack Sri Lanka leads the pack 🙂 On the first TADHack global weekend there were close to 100 hacks created from around the world. The locations running on 23 – 24 September were: Auckland, Brisbane, … Continue reading TADHack Global Weekend #1 Summary
As part of TADHack Global 2017’s first weekend, I attended the Chicago location run by the IIT RTC Labs. Chicago has been part of TADHack since its founding in 2014. Each year it gets bigger and better. The themes I took from Chicago this year are a stronger focus on community and humanitarian problems; and … Continue reading TADHack Chicago 2017
This weblog provides a list of the 408 TADHack hacks created so far. The data is distributed over the weblogs and YouTube, we’re simply consolidating it into one place. The list covers the hack name, team members, sponsor resources used, description, and link to the pitch video. Its amazing the creativity displayed in this list, … Continue reading List of TADHack Hacks
TADHack Chicago has run every year since the first ever TADHack in June 2014, we started with one location, Madrid, and ended up adding four satellite locations as people wanted to join in the fun, so TADHack Global was born. Today we’re at over 30 locations around the world. The other locations with this distinction … Continue reading Spotlight on TADHack Chicago
Protocol Labs is the powerhouse behind a number of important decentralized web projects, for example IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) and Filecoin. Protocol Labs mission is broad, to improve the internet and computing. They do so by creating groundbreaking protocols, and speeding up the pipeline from ideas on paper to users’ hands. TADHack and TADSummit … Continue reading Announcing New TADHack Partner Protocol Labs
A few weeks back I jumped into my 3rd TADHack event to compete. I’d been doing a good bit of work in the run up to the event using Amazon Lex, so I decided to build a simple interface from the PSTN (or old telephone network for you telecom newbs) to a Lex chatbot. Lex … Continue reading Scott Barstow on Hacking with Amazon Lex
Chatting with the people taking part in TADHack-mini Orlando highlighted a few things we do at TADHack, that perhaps we need to emphasize more in explaining why we’re unique and a great event for people to attend: We bring many technologies together so you can compare, contrast, understand how they can be mashed up, and … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando Review
TADHack-mini Orlando delivered on our motto of TADHack is for Everyone! We had many first time hackers achieving impressive results. The diversity of people from students to business, from hardcore coders to newbies, delivered a freshness and uniqueness of telecom applications that everyone involved was proud to be part of. This weblog is just a … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando Winners
Khalid Hoffman received the Most Innovative Cisco Spark / Tropo Prize at TADHack Global Orlando in October 2016 for his hack Wake Up Call. In this weblog Khalid reviews his hack to provide more info on how it came about and how he built it. BTW we’ll be running a TADHack-mini Orlando in March, just … Continue reading Khalid Hoffman on Wake Up Call