New Hackathon Will Give IoT the Human Touch

Kandy.io, Collaborizm and myDevices have announced a new virtual global hackathon designed to invite developers to make future solutions with Kandy's RTC API and developer platform and the Cayenne IoT Project Builder from myDevices. The event will be hosted on Collaborizm’s virtual global community, which has more than 40,000 active engineers and developers as members.

“With so much energy forming around both IoT and RTC, the intersection where machines and people interact is the crossroads of the future,” said Paul Pluschkell, Founder and CEO, Kandy. “This fully virtual 'pajama hackathon' is an opportunity for developers around the globe to get a head start on the major technological innovations that will help improve our lives.”

Contestants will be expected to use the sponsors’ tools to create a new hybrid telecom/IoT device.

“In less than a year, myDevices has attracted over 85,000 developers who are taking advantage of Cayenne, which is unique in the IoT space,” said Kevin Bromber, Founder and CEO, myDevices. “Imagine the alchemy when you bring together developers from all three domains and challenge them to find ways to invent, enabling things to message people, and people to message machines. We're thrilled to be part of this collective, creative hack.”

Unlike show & tell maker sites, Collaborizm is focused on creating a place for makers and hackers to actually collaborate on the things they are building virtually

“Our community is all about creativity, collaboration and breakthrough ideas,” said Steven Reubenstone, Founder and CEO, Collaborizm. “With the tools and platforms Kandy and myDevices bring to this global hackathon, we are confident the winning idea will lead to real world value.”

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A hackathon like this, designed to encourage collaboration with healthy competition, is great for the IoT. It leads to innovative ideas and new solutions being vetted in the public eye of the industry’s experts. I’d like to see this kind of thing become a higher profile regular trend.