18:20
That’s it folks, thanks for everyone who took part and followed along today, see you on the next Hack Day.
18:07
Will takes us through the Hube’s website design…
18:05
And the #HashtagGenerator is finally live too, a great team effort…
18:00
Now for the presentations…
First the Hube in all it’s glory, which glows each time Harkable receives a mention on Twitter, a like on Facebook or a like on Dribbble. The demo works seemlessly, but we might need to buy some bigger lights…
16:57
Here’s how the Hube will work – when an action is triggered on the web, the hube will glow a different colour notifying us all in the office.
16:43
With just under two hours to go the pressure is on to get Hube and the Hashtag generator up and running!
16:27
The Hube has taken shape!
16:13
Over on team Hube, Sam says “we’ve now got new Facebook likes, new Dribble likes, and @Harkable mentions + has tags being sent over to the pi”
16:10 The tagging function has been added to the #HashtagGenerator
15:14
This man shouldn’t be allowed near scissors…
14:58
Team programming the Hube… John has his ‘problem-solving’ face on…
14:25
Jess has wired up the bread board to the LEDs and connected the Raspberry Pi, ready for the Hube.
13:20
Thanks to Albion for fuelling today’s lunch.
12:59
Will is busy working on a few options for the Hube logo. The team have decided on creating a web interface for the app as well as the real-world light interface. It seems he’s quite handy in Photoshop…
12:52
A few of the #HackDay suggestions which didn’t make the final cut. The less said about Loo Finder the better…
12:24
Meanwhile in the dev-shed, Ash is testing the front-end of the #HashtagGenerator app. Note the newly created explicit logo from Chris.
12:24
Meanwhile in the dev-shed, Ash is testing the front-end of the #HashtagGenerator app. Note the newly created explicit logo from Chris.
12:02
Chris has got the logo nailed for the #HashtagGenerator after asking Duncan “How do i make this into a logo?”
11:48
Meanwhile Jess is going to start wiring up the LEDs for the Hube…
11:32
John & Sam are setting up alerts for Facebook likes and Twitter mentions on the server. If you couldn’t already picture it, this is what it looks like…
11:15
Duncan is working on some random words to enter into the #HashtagGenerator…
Otter
Meatier
Rage
Addict
Quite telling… Freud would have a field day.
11:04
Will and Jess return with some err, perspex…
10:32
Will and Jess head off to find supplies to build a cube
10:02
The two teams are kicking things off with a planning session, and breakfast courtesy of Pret’s bakery…
09:43
Today we’re blogging live from our team hack day. We’re ambitiously working furiously on two projects:
1) a #Hashtag generator for those tricky moments when you can’t think of a #hashtag for your new social media campaign
2) Hube – a cube which will flash different colours every time there is an interaction on our social media channels.
Follow the action here all day…