Cal Poly’s Computer Engineering Society (CPES) hosted its first hackathon April 18-20. Sponsored by Sony and the Cal Poly Computer Engineering Department, the event drew 30 participants from different disciplines.
A total of six groups presented their projects to a panel of judges, with team H2Optimize taking home first place.
Each member of the winning team was awarded their own Sony Spresense camera board — a high-performance microcontroller board — to continue working on their projects after the competition.
The event was the first time most of the participants had worked with microcontrollers, such as the Spresense camera board.
CPES hopes to make the hackathon an annual event for students to continue to learn about the latest technology and utilize it for practical purposes.
