On: All the hacks from HackNY Spring 2012 Hackathon

[DTrejo]

It is very saddening for me that frequently the winning hacks go offline after the hackathon.

In this case, Cloudspeaker.

[theyCallMeSwift → DTrejo]

That's one of the main goals of Hacker League. Maybe we can't keep the actual hacks online, but at least we can preserve a list of what got made and who made it.

[russfrank → DTrejo]

Cloudspeaker is 'up', but it has to be 'started' by some controller. Going to the page just makes you a minion in their system.

[CZ-18 → DTrejo]

I saw the video of their presentation, and couldn't believe it won. It seemed really simple

[theyCallMeSwift → CZ-18]

Sometimes the simplest hacks are the best ones.

[mike-bartnett → theyCallMeSwift]

And we don't really know what they had to do to make it work. The <audio> api is not known for its robustness and accuracy.

Our hack from October was really simple (two small python modules), but we spent all day compiling midi libraries to use with python. That was definitely not easy work.