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If you follow weekend hackathon - it is if you have tickets and are eager to go - I have the pleasure of news. As we mentioned before, Makerbot will be present with two of their 3D printers and I still have two raspberry Pis courtesy of Adafruit Industries will go for teams on projects of small construction equipment.
To reiterate, this year, we offer a Makerbot team the disrupt hackathon that submits the best hardware hack chosen by some representatives of Makerbot winner accepts their award on stage at the hackathon. While we encourage you to bring your own parts - engines, tips Ardiuno and others, we would be delighted that you hack on (and keep) a mini Raspberry ft we have available. I have already given my two absent, so hurry it on-site.
To request a Pi, forget not that you will need to bring a SD card, USB keyboard and mouse and monitor HDMI with cable. We may have some material on the site, but does depend on it. If you would still like one, send me an e-mail to john@techcrunch.com with the subject line "FT ME!" and I'll pick two people at random. Remember that you must already have a ticket for the hackathon. I have it? Good.
This will be our first hack of equipment and because the hackathon is just 24 hours we do not expect you guys to build a mouse dance Robotics of ten feet in height with the vision of sonar. Instead, we ask that you think more in terms of smaller robotic or kiosk for student computers. However, as better we to this I expect to see ten feet of roaming mice facilities next year.
