48-hour hackathons EST. MMXV
The weekend in pictures

The gallery.

Kickoff to code freeze — the briefing, the floor at 2am, the hardware bench and the Sunday demos. A mix of generative art and openly-licensed photography of the hackathon scene MOITUS is part of. Attendee identities stay anonymised; see the attendee roll.

A full auditorium of people with laptops watching an opening presentation.
Friday · 18:30 Kickoff briefing — the whole cohort in one room before the teams scatter to build. 📷 Matylda Czarnecka · CC BY-SA 2.0
48 HOURS
48 hours on the clock
A wide hall with scattered tables of people working at laptops and a projector screen.
Saturday · 10:00 The venue at full tilt — tables, screens and the projector still counting down. 📷 Randymcking · CC BY-SA 3.0
git push origin main — the code freeze
A small group seated around a round table working together on laptops in daylight.
Saturday · 15:00 A team that formed at the Pitch Fire, heads-down around a single table. 📷 Randymcking · CC BY-SA 3.0
Demo o’clock — working tech, no slides
Two people at a table with laptops, a breadboard and electronics between them.
Sunday · 01:00 The hardware track — breadboards, jumper wires and a soldering iron still warm. 📷 Ofthedove · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pitches to the full room
Image credits

Openly licensed. Properly credited.

The generative tiles are our own artwork. The photographs are openly-licensed work from the wider hackathon community, used to illustrate the format — resized and stripped of metadata, otherwise unaltered. MOITUS does not publish identifiable images of its own attendees.

  • Junction 2015 (homepage)
    by Vmuru · resized, metadata stripped
    CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  • Spring 2013 hackNY Student Hackathon (gallery)
    by Matylda Czarnecka · resized, metadata stripped
    CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
  • HackTX 2012 Participants (gallery)
    by Randymcking · resized, metadata stripped
    CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
  • HackTX 2012 Student programmers working (gallery)
    by Randymcking · resized, metadata stripped
    CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
  • Students Working at Derby Hacks 1 (gallery)
    by Ofthedove · resized, metadata stripped
    CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

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