Meet the Winners of Sony Spresense College Program 2023!

From March 2023 to February 2024, Hackster facilitated a college outreach program, known as “Hack in a Field,” for Sony Semiconductor Options Group (SSS) to share the Sony Sensing Resolution College Program (SSUP) throughout the US and Europe.

This program included the recruitment course of of college associates to use to make use of Spresense “Hackathon Package” to construct purposes. The college associates had been requested to include Spresense {hardware} into coursework, set up technical workshops, and/or a hackathon to allow college students to construct tasks leveraging Spresense capabilities.

A complete of 43 purposes from 37 colleges from Hackster’s international neighborhood had been acquired, and 4 universities had been chosen as “Hackathon Package” winners. The scholars from the 4 universities would study to develop with Spresense after which compete for a last prize to win PS5 and VR2.

Listed here are the highlights and recaps…

Delft College of Know-how

College students from the Delft College of Know-how participated in a Spresense Hackathon that passed off on Friday, September fifteenth within the Division of Electrical and Digital Engineering. Learn concerning the Hackathon right here. A variety of venture concepts had been developed from glasses designed to alert people with listening to impairment to sounds of their surroundings, superior tracker for athletics, cat repeller, finances audiophile, and many others.

College of Wisconsin-Madison

College of Wisconsin-Madison’s “One Well being Makeathon” used Spresense of their interdisciplinary hackathon hosted on the college’s makerspace from September twenty ninth to October 1st, 2023 to develop options for high-risk populations because of escalating warmth challenges. “Bucky-et Air Conditioner” by Jerry Miao gained the native prize. Miao’s progressive creation presents an environmentally acutely aware cooling answer. Learn extra concerning the Makeathon right here.

Stanford College

Stanford College’s XR Membership hosted the “Immerse The Bay” Hackathon November Tenth-Twelfth. This three-day, open-door occasion introduced collectively a neighborhood of VR/AR college students to collaborate on cutting-edge XR tasks. To facilitate college students’ participation within the hackathon. Sony’s Armaghan and Jinger Zeng from the Hackster group led an ideation workshop introducing the {hardware} to the scholars. The workshop was additionally joined by Pete Warden, CEO of Helpful Sensors, and beforehand the technical lead on the TensorFlow cell group at Google. Because the pioneer of tinyML, Warden gave college students an summary of the present state-of-the-art know-how, encapsulating LLM capabilities right into a wallet-sized board operating domestically with out the web. Learn extra right here.

College of Maryland

College of Maryland’s professor Huaishu Peng included Spresense in his CMSC730 human-computer interplay (HCI) graduate course. The course consists of 4 modules, together with prototyping, mini-competitions, and a semester-long venture exploring ubiquitous computing, wearables, digital/augmented actuality, haptics, tangible UIs, accessibility, and interactive fabrication. College students first time bought launched to leveraging Spresense’s superior DSP capabilities to develop human-machine interplay tasks.

After these universities every held their very own workshops, coursework, and hackathons, the scholars had been invited to submit their last tasks on Hackster to compete in opposition to one another for this system’s last prize.

And the grand prize winner goes to the buzzing robotic venture from College of Maryland! The prizes will go to Good Artifacts Lab for superior interactive analysis functions and we won’t wait to see the longer term tasks the place know-how and creativity will converge and delivery!

Thanks to all members from this 12 months and the schools from the colleges who contributed important quantities of sources to help this program, please observe Sony’s platform hub for extra upcoming occasions and actions.