
Hackathon for a better city
October 23-31, 2020
What is it?
We are bringing together the local maker community and the city administration to explore new solutions that improve life in the city with the help of open networks and civic tech.
When and where?
The challenges will be presented on October 23rd (virtual attendance!) followed by a hackathon on Friday 30th & Saturday 31st October, 2020. All online.
Challenges
We gathered real needs of different departments of the City of Zurich that could be solved with LoRaWAN and civic tech.
There will be as well an open challenge: if you don’t feel like building any of the other challenges, you are free to combine all available elements to create innovative solutions for the city!
What you will find
Learning
Take the chance to learn new skills and technologies from mentors and peers!
Hardware
Plenty of electronics, sensors and other hardware to play with!
Health
We take care of you, provide healthy food and environment so you don’t to think about it! And of course, we have a safety concept.
Kids are cool
We offer a safe and fun environment for young makers (U18) who are accompanied by their parents. For kids 7 to 16 we offer a coding workshop by Logiscool.
Schedule
10:00-17:00 | Pre-event workshop Make your own shitty addon, by Tillo Bosshart Learn to design your own electronic circuit! Join us to create your personal "shitty add-on" extension to our electronic conference badge. Bring your laptop and make sure you installed KiCad and Inkscape. Read more here | FabLab Zürich Zimmerlistrasse 6 8004 Zürich |
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Kick-off 👉 switched to virtual! 🎦🚀 | Zoom | |
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17:00 | Open doors | |
18:00 | Introduction to #MakeZurich | |
18:20 | Presentation of challenges | |
19:30 | Team registrations and Q&A sessions with challenge stakeholders, sponsors and partners. |
Open Lab Week at MechArtLab | Bitwäscherei Neue Hard 12 8005 Zürich | |
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13:00-15:00 | Workshop OpenThings! - The last mile to your things, by PRiOT Already wondered how to bring your IoT device data out of the internet? Then, this hands-on fits perfectly to you. OpenThings! is a new initiative to provide you a simple way to publish your IoT data to the public, friends and even customers. Let's professionally visualize your thing on your cloud based dashboard within the time of a wink. | In person |
16:00-17:00 | Workshop 👉 switched to virtual UX toolkit workshop, by Francesca Sanfilippo Some useful tips to organise your team, prototyping and test with the Design Thinking method and design sprint. | Zoom |
16:00-22:00 | Open Lab Day Do you need tools or a place to work? Or simply want to hang out and chat about life, the universe and everything? The lab days are optional and available for those that need it. |
16:00-22:00 | Open Lab Day |
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16:00-22:00 | Open Lab Day |
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16:00-22:00 | Open Lab Day | |
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18:00-20:00 | Workshop 👉 switched to virtual Shape your idea through technology & design 🚀, by brudi & co-co-co Together we work on your ideas. For which target group are you creating your solution? When is it used, and what needs will it serve? How will it benefit communities? We show you methods on how to answer these questions. By bringing in a design perspective we help you to evoke different perspectives on the challenges. Join our short but intense worksession and kickstart your project. | Zoom |
16:00-22:00 | Open Lab Day | |
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20:00-21:30 | Workshop 👉 switched to virtual Crash course: LoRaWAN and The Things Network, by Gonzalo Casas What is LoRaWAN? Think of it as WiFi for sensors! In this workshop, you will learn all about LoRaWAN, and how to develop a simple sensor that sends data to the Internet via the free/open The Things Network. | Zoom |
16:00-22:00 | Open Lab Day | |
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18:00-21:00 | Workshop DIY CO2 Ampel, by Markus Leutwyler of Make.Human.Technology Get your hands dirty and your air cleaner! In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to build a indoor CO2 measuring device and/or full featured weather station! IMPORTANT: Make sure you have picked up the required sensor! Pickup location: Bitwäscherei | Zoom |
Main Event 👉 switched to virtual | Link | |
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09:00 | Virtual coffee! | |
10:00 | Welcome session | Zoom |
15:00 | Tech-talk Miromico's concept of the FMLR LoRaWAN module family, by Alex Raimondi, Miromico Learn about the concept and features of the family of FMLR LoRaWAN modules of miromico, including some of the smallest modules of the world! | Zoom |
16:00 | Tech-talk Simplifying Solutions Development with LoRaWAN Modem and LoRa Cloud™, by Anton Beitler, Semtech Learn more about solution development using the LoRaWAN soft modem included as part of the hardware kits of the event and LoRa Cloud services! | Zoom |
21:00 | Demoshow / Realtime code art feat. Echtzeit Digitale Kultur x MakeZurich by soda, pan and unlock | Twitch |
09:00 | Virtual coffee! | Wonder Me |
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10:00 | Second hackday starts! | Zoom |
15:30 | Final submission time! | |
16:00 | Project presentations | Zoom |
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