Many thanks to all those who participated in this weekend’s Hackathon at iOSDevCamp 2010.

As always, we wish to reward those who demonstrate our values of:

• Contribution: by assisting the commons, offering value, and in general by being useful.
• Sharing: by offering help, sharing code or expertise, or by assistance in testing or debugging.
• Openness: by asking good questions, by answering them, by being open to people and ideas, and by making source code available.
• And of course, by demonstrating a “Can Do” attitude.

55 Hackathon teams competed on Sunday afternoon, many of whom had never met before the previous Friday evening. The winners are:

• Coolest App: SuperRover “Want to control a Lego Mindstorm NXT rover with an iPad over bluetooth? There’s an app for that!”, by Zac B, Charles D., Max W. and Jonathan R. Honorable Mention: Optical Cabinet by Andrew Pouliot and Brian Chapados.
• Best use of PayPal API: PayFace “PayFace is an app that uses facial recognition to pay anyone who has a PayPal account”, by David Bello. Honorable Mention: PayKids by Eli Stone, Andrew Stone and Ollie Wagner
• Most Innovative: iEurope “iPad Europe travel app for children. It’s a 360 panorama of different countries with music/sound changing as a different country appears in the app”, by Amy Wang, Ivan Torres, Scotty Allen and Daniel Pasco.
• Most Useful App: Coverage? “Got Signal?  Coverage? is a universal cell phone carrier map browser – overlaying AT&T, Sprint and Verizon coverage maps”, by Chris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard. Honorable Mention: iRecoveryWatch by Mike Sax, Dantha Manikka-Baduge, Muthu Nat, Consuelo Griego, John Varghese and Hoa Long Tam
• Most Monetizable: LexStudio . “Produce a live event, send streaming video to a wide audience and switch between multiple video inputs, all from an iPhone”, by Alex Bratton, Zach Ullevig, Matthew Knippen and Joe Carroll (all from LexTech).
• Most Accessible: Accessible TableView Library “Open source library to make table-view apps more accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired” by Michael Patrick Ellard.
• Best Hardware Hack: Geesel “Easel for the iPad, with articulating arm on a stainless steel axel which adjusts easily to your preferred viewing angle” by Michael Madson.
• Best Game: DIODE, “An ah-mazing game for iPad” by John Ellenich and David Liu. Honorable Mention: xTanks by Eddie Chen and Todd Powers.
• Best Social App: SocialPong, “Crowd-sourced classic Pong on the iPad — use your iPhone or any web-based device to help change the speed and direction of your team’s paddle!” by Anna Billstrom and Stacie Hibino.
• Best User Interface: HabiTimer, “Unique interface for local notifications that trigger flexibly throughout the day. Use for medications, diet, work break reminders…” by Robert McNally.
• Best Open Source: DragKit “DragKit is an opensource framework to help developers implement drag and drop within their app. DragKit also allows for drag and drop between applications that implement the framework” by Zac White, Barry Burton and Andy Mai. (source)
• Best Developer Tool: Bugaboo “Bugaboo is tool for debugging web apps on iOS devices”, by Ishan Anand.
• Best Upcoming Developer: Unreal Model Viewer “Loads Unreal Engine Model files and displays the animation loops for each of the characters/monsters”, by Andrew Dudney (and his father Bill Dudney).
• Best use of Web APIs: Flickr Photo Map, “Explore the world through Flickr photos.  Drill down to any location, filter by tags and usernames, explore your world”, by Tyler White. Honorable Mention: CoverCake by Sujee Maniyam.
• Best Web App: FlicPic, “An app for viewing photos from Twitter on the iPad.  Uses iUI and CSS transitions to create a compelling user experience”, by Mike Xu, Isaiah Carew, Joshua Mauldin, Nicole Lazzaro, Sean Gilligan, James Harris and Erik Bryn. Honorable Mention: PhotoPic, by Adam Tow.
• Ironman Award for Most Helpful Developer: Max Weisel, who contributed to many different projects and also demonstrated the amazing USB Sync.
• Best Sacrifice to the Demo Gods (or “Even Steve Jobs sometimes can’t make the wifi work”): Audio Tunes by Thiago Jackiw, Andrew Prasetyo, Jon Bardin.

Many thanks to the sponsors for many of the awards, including:

• Paypal
• Mobclix
• Apigee
• and many more smaller prizes were donated by our other sponsors.

The iOSDevCamp team also wishes to thank all the other teams that demonstrated their creativity and innovation: PintuPower, BeatSquare, DIYBuddy, AppCinema, ParkU, Spanish Touch Trainer, Lightning Sale, JiraPad, LiveTrip, PanicAlarm, TweetWall, iScavengerHunt, Wrapping Scroll View, iTranslator, Audiolizer, iPhoneDisassembly, iCharger, Telephone Game, Footie Fingers, iSpeak, Transom, What’s Happening Now, Kitchen Elf, Howl-o-gram, Actors for Netflix v2, Musicians Teleprompter, Intersect, Styletto, SugarRace, PromoCodesEX, LightStalking Library, Best Remote, iPhod and Griddler.

(If you have any corrections to info or links above, please contact me at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org.)

Many thanks to all those who presented this evening at the iPadDevCamp Hackathon!

I’ll write up with more detail tomorrow, but here is a quick list of the winners of various categories in tonight’s Hackathon:

• Coolest: Slot Machine
• Best Open Source: Media Shower
• Best Developer Tool: AQGridView
• Best Game: Tank Or Die
• Best Healthcare: Spot
• Best New Developer: Dice Pad
• Best Social: Un-bored Game
• Most Useful : Relay
• Best Web App: IuIPad

Sponsor Awards:

• Best use of PayPal APIs (sponsor PayPal): iConcessionStand
• Most Monetizable iPad App (sponsor MobClix): Airhawk
• Best Use of Web APIs (sponsor Apigee): NetFlix Authors
• Future of Publishing (sponsor Promote-a-Book): Autumn Gem

Special Awards:

• Accessability: Malen 21
• Retro: Boombox
• Most Alarming: P.A.D.

Honorable Mentions:

• Timelines
• DevScope
• Whack a Mouse
• Whorl’ed Champions
• Drift
• Design Scene
• Magic Window
• Executor

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to me by 1pm on Sunday. Please do not submit your entries twice, if you need to make a change contact me via Twitter @ChristopherA or via email at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org. You can also see a list of current hackathon submissions. If there are more submissions then what we have time to demonstrate, submissions that offer source code will be given first priority, then submissions that were conceived and created at iPadDevCamp, and then those that the Judges think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the room for the Show.

Each satellite iPadDevCamp should have one or two iPhone Apps selected from their attendees to submit to the Hackathon Show. They should prepare a short ~3m video and email it or a YouTube link to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

Coding during iPhoneDevCamp 2007

One of the best parts of iPadDevCamp is participating in the Hackathon—you have a huge opportunity to learn and grow your skills, get into the groove and flow of high performance development, and network with future colleagues that may help you solve technical challenges for years to come.

Join a Team, or Start One?

But for best results, be prepared. You should know if you plan on joining a team, or if you are going to try to recruit one. If you plan on joining a team, you should be able what skills you have to offer, or what skills you wish to stretch. If you are going to try to recruit a team, you should be able to articulate your ideas well, and know what skills you are looking for.

And of course you should be flexible—your great idea may not appeal enough to recruit a team this time, but maybe you can join another project where you can learn how to do your own project later. Don’t plan to work alone—the best part of the Hackathon is working with others as passionate as you are about the iPad.

Matchmaking and Concierge

If you need help forming a team, or finding one to join, I am here to help. I’ll be in the commons area starting Friday evening and during most of the conference, and I will help you find the people you need. As the teams emerge and everyone has found a place, I will also be acting as concierge to help you find solutions to problems that you encounter. Need someone who knows spherical trigonometry to make your app work? Let me help you find them.

The Hackathon Show and Contest

The deadline for the Hackathon Show and Contest on Sunday afternoon. However, your entry doesn’t need to be a complete app—find something undocumented and share it! Show us how you made something work! Create a cool demo of a feature we didn’t know about! Remember, your iPad App doesn’t have to be perfect, just be enough that other people can learn from it!

Prize Eligibility

Your Hackathon entries may be eligible for prizes if they demonstrate our ideals of Contribution, Sharing, Openess, and “Can Do” attitude. The complete rules for prizes are on the Contest page. But in summary, your submitted iPad App must not currently be available via the iTunes App Store OR if it is available, you must have source code available on a public website. Web Apps are always eligible. In addition, please do not submit iPhone-only or Jailbroken apps for the Hackathon.

Entry Deadline 1pm

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to me by 1pm on Sunday. Please do not submit your entries twice, if you need to make a change contact me via Twitter @ChristopherA or via email at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org. You can also see a list of current hackathon submissions. If there are more submissions then what we have time to demonstrate, submissions that offer source code will be given first priority, then submissions that were conceived and created at iPadDevCamp, and then those that the Judges think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the room for the Show.

Each satellite iPadDevCamp should have one or two iPhone Apps selected from their attendees to submit to the Hackathon Show. They should prepare a short ~3m video and email it or a YouTube link to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

The Hackathon Show 2pm

The Hackathon Show will begin at 2pm. Demos should be around 3 minutes, so practice your presentation before you get to the podium. We will have two overhead projectors set up so that we can transition from demo to demo quickly. You can also use a Mac with the iPad Simulator to demonstrate your App. Demos from iPadDevCamp satellites should be an ~3 minute video file.

We look forward to seeing your apps!