Opentrons Hack-A-Tron!

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🎊 Opentrons will be holding our very first hackathon (HACK-A-TRON!) this May! 🎊 🙀

Information

🗺 Location

Opentrons HQ
20 Jay St, Suite 528, Brooklyn, NY 11201

📆 Date

May 10-11, 2019

📝 Sign up HERE

Don't worry if you can't make it in-person- you are welcome to attend remotely!

What to Bring

• Your laptop set up with the OT-2 API environment. You can find instructions to do that here!
• Materials you may like to use that are not in the following list:
  • acrylic
• Your brain!

What to Expect

List of Topics

👷‍♀ Hardware 👷

• Create a module
• Create a labware or labware adapter
• Something else hardware related?

👩‍💻 Software 👨‍💻

• Integrate a 3rd party device to the robot
• Use the speakers to do something fun
• Use the camera to do something fun
• Use the button to do something fun
• Use LEDs for different instances (i.e. when robot is paused etc)
• Something else software related?

👩‍🔬 Protocol Development 👨‍🔬

• Edit READMEs
• Refactor protocols to be more parametric
• Create your own workflow!

🕵️‍♀️ Other/Non-technical 🕵

• Design a logo for...protocol designer, forum etc tools
• Look for errors in our documentation
• Learn to use the robot

Evaluation Criteria

There will be a chance to demo your work at the end of the hackathon. Each category will be judged separately based on criteria listed below.

Entertainment

Break room for: naps, movies, video games, Karaoke, cosplay, twister

Grand Prize?