#unihack

[gamesatwork]

e455 — Star Trek vs. Douglas Adams

An episode focused on Science Fiction leading to Innovative Science Fact! Star Trek and Douglas Adams inspired technology, AI, games, XR and spatial computing. Glad to be of service!

Photo by Mark König on Unsplash Published 26 February 2024 Michael and Michael are back in studio, inspired by an article that connects science fiction with scientific innovation leading to science fact.  The post from the Interconnected blog posits that we are in the midst of a vibe shift, and that the technology is shifting from Star Trek to that from the imagination of Douglas Adams.  The…

[dailystraitsdotcom]

Logitech Backs Unihack 2025

Unihack 2025: Largest student hackathon, sponsored by Logitech Australia.

Sydney, March 3: Unihack, Australia’s largest student hackathon, is set to return for its 12th year from 14-16 March 2025, with Logitech Australia joining as the major sponsor. The event will bring together 600 students from Australia and New Zealand, making it the biggest competition in Unihack’s history.The 48-hour hackathon challenges university students to design, build, and pitch a…

[tsflipp-blog]

[geekycinnamon]

NOTETAKING 101

In my country,the first uni semester usually starts at October (which means very soon) and i’m more that excited!.However, i can’t help but have some concerns.As a first year, i have no knowledge of the whole “University” concept,that’s why i’m currectly browsing on internet about uni hacks/tips and useful advice from other uni/college students.

Here are some EXTREMELY IMPORTANT notetaking tips by   The Academic Success Center 

BEFORE CLASS

~ Identify main concepts and terms you expect to learn

~ Write questions you hope the lecture will answer

DURING CLASS

~ Take notes in your own words

~ Use consistent abbreviations and symbols

~ Answer any questions you wrote before class

~ Capture main ideas and sufficient detail (definitions, examples, images)

~ Make and visualize connections between concepts

AFTER CLASS

~ Make time to return to your notes after class

~ Transform your notes into a new format (e.g., visual, mind map, quiz questions, study guide)

~ Summarize your notes in writing, verbally, or—better yet—both!

~ Connect current class notes to concepts from the previous classes/weeks

~ Compare notes with a classmate to catch missed info

NOTE TAKING MYTH BUSTERS

MYTH: All you need to do is take notes during class 

FOR REALS: Notes are only as good as what you do with them after class. Learning happens when you put notes to use. Here are a few ways to commit notes to memory:

 • Transform your notes into a new format (summary, visual, diagram, etc.)

 • Explain your notes and main points aloud to someone else 

•Write possible test questions based on your notes

 •Create a study guide that you add to each week with new information and connections you’ve made

MYTH: You should write down everything you hear in lecture 

FOR REALS: Don’t do that. You might end up tuning out content if you only focus on transcription. Or you might get super stressed if you miss a word. Instead… 

• Listen for key points 

• Translate ideas into your own words

 • Listen 80% of the time and write 20% of the time 

• If you know you have a question about a concept, don’t stress. Mark it, so you can review it later with other materials or in office hours

MYTH: Quantity = Quality 

FOR REALS: Excessive note taking may not be quality note taking. Check your balance between listening, learning, and note taking by asking… 

• Am I focused on comprehension during lecture (rather than on transcription)? • Can I recall and explain what I learned after lecture?

 • Do my notes have enough main points and detail for me to use them later in a new way? (e.g. writing a summary, drawing a mind map)

If you want to read more.Here’s the link : https://success.oregonstate.edu/sites/success.oregonstate.edu/files/LearningCorner/Tools/4-page_note_taking_20.pdf

[oneunderproects]

1314Unihack 2021

[teodorakovacevic]

UniHack Events

Activity title: UniHack Events

Type of activity: Service, Creativity

Date:20-22.11.2020.

Learning outcomes

Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth.

Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

Show commitment to, and perseverance in, CAS experiences.

Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance.

Activity description

UniHack is 2-days programme related to 48 h of programming. All participants should be part of team that are organized online when events begin. The team I was part of is international team that was following track in improving digital education. Our ideas was to create web app that will help improve material exchange between teachers and students and also to help students manage their school time. Unfortunetly our didn’t get financial support from sponsors, but we will be continuing working on our project.

Reflection

By being part of this hackathon, I was able to communicate and exchange ideas with one of the greatest minds of today and all with idea to help community in certain ways. All participant needed to be part of either educational, social, urban or environmental track. My team was made of mostly students, so we found it the most interesting and helpful to participate in the track we knew the best. Although we weren’t able to get financial need to conclude project, we will be continuing to work on it. 

[cysnews]

Vítězem studentského inovačního hackatonu se stal projekt sociální sítě sdružující učitele

Vítězem studentského inovačního hackatonu se stal projekt sociální sítě sdružující učitele

Ve dnech 1. až 3. května 2020 proběhl první český studentský online hackathon UniHack: Inovuj Česko. Cílem soutěže bylo vymyslet inovace, které pomohou firmám, institucím či organizacím zmírnit důsledky současné nepříznivé situace.

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[freeglehertford]

A tweet

thisisfreegle: RT loveyourclothes: Want 2 make new #Unifriends? Why not organise a Swap it, sell it, donate it session? #Unihacks BangorUni…

— FreegleHertford (@freeglehertford) September 16, 2017

[xocoffeelover]

MEINE TOP UNIHACKS + WHATS IN MY UNI BAG TAG

[lseannualfundreports]

Hack: LSE’s FinTech Innovation Challenge

Created as a joint enterprise between LSESU’s own Investment Society and UniHack and with backing from the LSE Annual Fund and the private sector, Hack spanned the last weekend of November 2016.

A hackathon is a short period of time in which attendees form teams to try and break down a problem and build a new solution. At this event, experts in relevant fields help teams of students to develop their ideas into viable products. The teams then present their innovative new business solutions for the banking and finance technology sector to leading experts and academics from the industry.

Having completed the arduous task of selecting the best possible team names,  ‘Reverse’ kicked off the presentations to a room packed with students, industry professionals and academics. Their platform acts as a third party to pay invoices to suppliers at an accelerated rate, in exchange for a discount.

The winners of the event, ‘Rost’, presented their idea to merge social entrepreneurship, charity donations and peer to peer lending to take the prize.

The event also included a keynote speech from Tim Barnes, CEO of The Rain Gods, with Olly Whittle and Sam Patel from BudiPay and Plexal joining for the panel event.

While this was the first event of its type at LSE, plans are already being made for next year!

To find out more information and view more images of the event, simply search on Facebook for #LSEFinTech or follow the link for the blog: http://events.unihack.co/lse/

[geekycinnamon]

How to STOP procrastinating

Hey guys! It’s ya girl !

🌱Break down your homework/responsibilities so that you’ll do little “steps” everyday

🌱Create the PERFECT study environment (Romanticize your life ❤️)

🌱Make a PLANNER

🌱Set reasonable goals 

🌱 Visualize the benefits of getting things done  (I know it may be a struggle sometimes but remember, Study now and you’ll have a better life and career in the near future :))

[cjmlgrto]

Startup Tips from UNIHACK

Melbourne's premiere university-level tech hackathon was on this weekend. Just like last year, I joined in. With fierce competition, mentors & recruiters from big-name companies, and a panel of critically-acclaimed judges— it was one exhilarating event.

I learned so much in the span of 36 sleepless hours. While fresh in my mind, here's what happened, in the form of major 🔑 lessons from UNIHACK:

♻️ Don't be afraid to try something old

When you're starting out as an entrepreneur, trying to come up with a unique business idea feels like the biggest problem in the world.

When my UNIHACK team and I were deciding what to build, we also ran into the same problem. We spent an ideation session trying to come up with the most original idea we could think of. It was extremely difficult, so our team decided to "play it safe" by working on a more well-designed version of When2Meet.

But, walking into UNIHACK, we were surprised to see so many teams doing the same thing: building some variation of some existing product. That was when I realised that a lot of big-name companies have done the same thing, too! I mean, Uber's essentially the taxi service plus the internet— and Facebook started out as a MySpace clone but for Harvard students! Nothing is truly original.

So my team and I decided to stick to our idea, and just focus on improving what's already out there. We were pretty successful in the end: we won the category for best design, on top of a people's choice award.

💬 Work fast, speak slowly

6 hours before the deadline, my team and I were facing some really bad issues building our app. We couldn't get the core functionality to work. We had a huge backlog of tasks that needed to be finished in just a small amount of time— and lot of that work was dependent on this core feature.

We were stressed, and each team meeting we had was getting more and more aggressive. It had reached the point where we each had to seperate from each other to cool down and figure out what went wrong.

First of all, here's what we were doing right: we had hourly team meetings, and lined up our tasks on Trello. We were on top of everything, and everybody knew what each other had to do. (Not so different from the usual startup team workflow). But here's what wasn't right: we were too concerned about the quantity of team catch-ups, that we completely disregarded the quality of our communication.

Every one of us in our team was too concerned about getting stuff done that we didn't bother to explain what we did and listen to each other. We were too focused on our own tasks, and assumed that everyone in the team would just understand what we did.

30 minutes before the deadline was when we finally resolved all our issues. It was extremely stressful, but one heck of a lesson to learn: you can never assume that other people know as much as you. When you do anything, explain before, explain during, and explain after!

📈 It's all about the pitch

There are so many ways to phrase this. Here's a few that I like:

Your product isn't worth anything if you can't sell it.

What you do doesn't matter if you don't know how to tell others about it.

Your business cannot be successful if you can't show others that it will be.

Even though teams at UNIHACK spent 24 hours non-stop building their product, the quality of the work was measured by their ability to pitch to the judges. Some of the best programmers and software developers I knew didn't win— even if they knew how to write industry-standard code. The winning teams won because they could persuade their product's potential.

Indeed, it's crazy to think that one could work so hard on getting the product right— and have all that effort thrown away because a product is unsellable. (Perhaps a parallel could be drawn to the whole science communication conundrum). But the most important thing to learn here is that what you sell matters as much as how you sell it.

What I love about hackathons is the agile learning environment. It's a playground where you're allowed to make mistakes, learn hard, and learn fast.

Even though my team and I each came home with an Xbox of our own, the most valuable thing we got out of it was the learning experience. As cheesy as it sounds— it is the lessons learned from hardships and challenges after all, that guide one's future decisions and motivations.

Images courtesy of Steven Cooper, licensed under a BY-NC-SA Creative Commons License. Thanks, Steve!

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[shash7]

Reflections #1

Have you tried IFTTT?

Did you know they have a pretty kickass API called the maker channel?

For monashjobs, we wired up the API with facebook and twitter so whenever someone posts a job listing, it automatically created a new facebook post and tweet based on the job posting.

Now how awesome is that!

I participated in Unihack 2015 and made this.

We are still expanding upon it but the basic idea is to make every image on the internet taggable, a bit like how facebook does it

Currently it only supports images hosted on imgur but we are going to make changes to it(once I get some time heh)

Just looking back on how much PHP sucks and how badly designed cakephp is(the whole damn project, really)

[onemorepeachyday]

I have a ‘how to make your essay longer’ tip: do you know does words that you are never sure if they are written with ’-’ or not like check-in? well if you don’t use the - and put a space in between Word counts them as 2 words !!! Never thought of that, have you?

[unihack-blog]

Air Tic Tac Toe

პროექტი Air Tic Tac Toe  hack@CST-ზე მეორე ადგილის გამარჯვებული გახდა.

ძირითადი მიზანი

Do Epic Shit & Have Fun !

მთავარი იდეა

მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ ჰაკათონზე სრულიად სხვა იდეით მოვედით, Do Epic Shit პრეზენტაციამ იმდენად იმოქმედა ჩვენზე რომ გადავწყვიტეთ შესაბამისი პროექტი გაგვეკეთებინა და ჰაკათონის პირველ ღამეს მოგვივიდა იდეა გაგვეკეთებინა ყველათვის ცნობილი და საყვარელი თამაში “კრესწიკი-ნოლიკი”  ონლაინში, ხოლო თამაში შეგვეძლებოდა ხელის მოძრაობით რომელსაც ვებ კამერა დააფიქსირებდა.

ერთი შეხედვით ეს საკმაოდ რთული თემაა, არანაირი სენსორების, დამატებითი მოწყობილობების, ბიბლიოთეკებისა თუ სხვათა გამოყენების გარეშე, ჯავასკრიპტით დაგვეფიქსირებინა ხელის მოძრაობა. თუმცა ჩვენ�� გეგმაც ეს იყო, გაგვეკეთებინა რაიმე განსხვავებული, გასართობი და სახალისო.

იდეის განხორციელება

რათქმაუნდა უპირველესი პრობლემა იყო ჯავასკრიპტით ხელის მოძრაობის დაფიქსირება, თითქოსდა სრულიად შეუთავსებადი ამოცანა ამ ენასთან. თუმცა ყველაფერი გენიალური მარტივიაო როგორც იტყვიან, ჩვენც ისეთ გადაწყვეტილებას მივაგენით რაც ჯდებოდა ჯავასკრიპტის შესაძლებლობების ფარგლებში. უპირველესად გვჭირდებოდა ვებ კამერის ჩართვა და მისგან წამოსული სტრიმის მიღება, რასაც ჯავასკრიპტი საკმაოდ მარტივად უმკლავდება getUserMediaAPI()-ს საშუალებით რომელიც ჩვენს ვიდეო ობიექტს პირდაპირ ანიჭებს სორსად კამერიდან წამოსულ სტრიმს.

სტრიმის მიღების შემდეგ დგება მთავარი პრობლემა, მისი დამუშავება ისე, რომ დავაფიქსიროთ მოძრაობა. ამ საკითში კი უკვე გვეხმარებიან პიქსელები. კერძოდ, ვიდეო-სტრიმის თითოეული კადრის პიქსელ-პიქსელ დამუშავება. ზოგადად რომ ვილაპარაკოთ და აზრი ამ მეთოდისა გასაგები იყოს მოვიყვანოთ მაგალითი: გვაქვს თეთრი ფონი, ვებკამერა აფიქსირებს მას და უღებს სურათებს,

დაახლოებით 30-40 კადრი წამში რაც გვაძლევს ვიდეოს. აქამდე ყოველი

ფიქსელი არის თეთრი და აქვს მისი შესაბამის RGB კოდი -  (255, 255, 255)

შემდეგ დავუშვათ შემოდის კადრში ხელი, ახლა უკვე იმ ფართობის პიქსელებში რასაც ხელი ფარავს  აღარ წერია თეთრის RGB კოდი, არამედ უკვე კანის ფერის შესაბამისი RGB კოდი (255, 218, 190). თუ შევადარებთ ორ შემთხვევას :

1) ხელი კადრში არ შემოსულა - მაშინ ორ ერთმანეთის მომდევნო კადრების პიქსელების სხვაობა იქნება 0, რადგან როგორც იყო თეთრი ფონი, ისევე დარჩა თეთრი ფონი და შესაბამისად:

R: |255 - 255| = 0 G: |255 - 255| = 0 B: |255 - 255| = 0 0 + 0 + 0 = 0

2) ხელი კადრში შემოვიდა - აქ უკვე სიტუაცია განსხვავდება, პირველ კადრში ფონი იყო თეთრი, ახლა კი გარკვეული ფართობი სურათისა დაიკავა ხელმა და მისმა ფერმა გადაფარა თეთრი, შესაბამისად პიქსელების სხვაობა 0სგან განსხვავდება.

R: |255 - 255| = 0 G: |218 - 255| = 37 B: |190 - 255| = 65 0 + 37 + 65 = 102

მიღებული სხვაობა გვაძლევს საშუალებას დავადგინოთ თუ რომელ პიქსელებში მოხდა ფერის ცვლილება და შესაბამისად - ხელის მოძრაობა(ან თავის, ან ფეხის ან ნებისმიერი რამის). მსგავსი შედარება ხდება ყოველ ორ მომდევნო კადრზე რაც საშუალებას გვაძლევს დინამიურად დავადგინოთ ის ადგილები სადაც ხდება მოძრაობა. ასევე ეს სხვაობა საშუალებას გვაძლევს დავაყენ��თ მგრძნობელობა მოძრაობის დაფიქსირებაში. გასაგებია რომ თუ ორ კადრში პიქსელებს შორის სხვაობა არის 1, 2 ან თუნდაც 10 ეს ფერის ძალიან ოდნავ ცვლილებას ნიშნავს და რადგან ვებ კამერა ვერ დაიკვეხნის მაღალი გარჩევადობის სტრიმით ამიტომ ამ პარამეტრის გათვალისწინებაც აუცილებელია და მცირე ცვლილებელი უგულებელყოფილია.

ვირჩევთ სასურველ უჯრას

  და ვადასტურებთ :)))

მხოლოდ ჰარდკორი - როგორც ავღნიშნე ჩვენ არ გამოგვიყენებია არანაირი დამატებითი მოწყობილობა თუ ბიბლიოთეკა რაც გაგვიადვილებდა მუშაობას, ყველაფერი დაწერილია სუფთა ჯავასკრიპტზე. ( ჰარდკორის მოყვარულები დაგვაფასებენ :3 )

node.js-ის (socket.io)  საშუალებით თამაში გახდა მულტიფლეიერი(ონლაინში)

თამაში ეშვება როგორც ლეპტოპებზე ჩაშენებული ვებ კამერებით, ისე სმარტფონებზე რომლებსაც აქვთ ფრონტ კამერა, განურჩევლად ფირმისა და ოპერაციული სისტემისა

( Thanks Javascript :> )

(ჰაკათონის ერთერთი ორგანიზატორი თავისი სმარტფონით თამაშობს ჩვენს თამაშს ^_^)

ალბათ ამ ყველაფერმა განაპირობა რომ ჩვენ დავიკავეთ მე-2 ადგილი.

გუნდი - IFG პროექტის სახელი  - Air Tic Tac Toe გუნდის წევრები - დავით დიდბარიძე,  ილია ნაჭყებია  და საბა ხუციშვილი

[geekycinnamon]

How to study LESS but BETTER

  DISCLAIMER: Obviously, we are not the same ,especially when it comes to studying and absorbing info. Each one of you can try whichever hack/study technique you want and just because it didn’t work on you ,that doesn’t mean that it won’t be helpful for others :)

🍒.Studygroups.Personally,i like studying alone so studying with other people isn't helpful to me . However, if you think you could do better with a study-group ,then find a couple of good friends (who are interested in studying AS WELL) and GET THINGS DONE

🍒.Take notes by hand ,it’s an effective way to crave everything into your memory, faster and easily

🍒.Show up in class/lectures ,everything will make a lot more sense. Trust me :)

🍒.Do a little everyday ,but don’t let it be your WHOLE day (e.g Today i’m gonna study the first 2 chapters for my history test ,then i’ll do my science project and then i’ll watch the next episode of Miraculous Ladybug and go to the gym) ;)

🍒.BULLET POINTS AND DIAGRAMS!

🍒.Be a SMART READER , not a ROBOT

🍒. In Uni, choose classes that interest you because this way studying will become more enjoyable and won’t feel like a dull chore.