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Hackathon turns Eduthon | CV-supported Event 2024

Codevember e.V. is teaming up with the Institute of Computer Science at the Ludwigsburg University of Education for a Eduthon event on June 14th-16th. This collaborative event is all about hacking, gaming, and learning. Whether you’re into coding, game development, or just passionate about education technology, this event has something for everyone.

An Eduthon is a marathon event where educators, developers, and students come together to create innovative educational technologies. It’s a blend of hackathon and educational contents, focusing on developing creative solutions for the future of classrooms.

This year’s Eduthon theme is “Game-Based Learning.” It’s all about exploring how games can revolutionize education by making learning fun and engaging. However, participants can work on any projects they want.

We as Codevember e.V. bring experience in organizing such events and mentoring participants. Our team is ready to support both new and experienced participants with hands-on approach, mentorship sessions, and technical guidance.

For more details and conditions of participation, check out the Eduthon page.

Codevember X: Hardware, Creativity and Music

Our 10th Codevember hackathon has arrived and it was a blast! The event was again hosted by the incredible AI Xpress in Boeblingen (https://aixpress.io/), supporting us with drinks, techs, their makerspace and tools we needed for a successful hackathon.

After kicking off the event on Thursday evening with pitching our ideas and projects to our peers, we started onsite at the AI Xpress on Friday morning. With at least 5 different projects in mind, we started scouting, preparing and brainstorming right away. Some of the project included …

  • a DIY approach and implementation for a cat surveillance system at home
  • a 2023 escape-game advent calender
  • a third-person shooter with gravity and time manipulation, written in Unity
  • a RaspberryPi-based music sample looper
  • Telegram bot maintenance and improvment (again)
  • manual development of analog pictures

On Saturday we held our annual general meeting for Codevember e.V. and afterwards presented the progress of our projects. As always we had a great time catching up and talking about life, work, different projects and new interests.

We owe a huge thank you to AI Xpress for sponsoring the event and providing the perfect location for Codevember X 2023. Go check out their events at https://aixpress.io/events.

I always forget my Keyboard Shortcuts

Vim, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Windows Powertools – I’m daily using a bunch of feature rich software. And everyone who once used Vim (or Emacs) knows there sometimes is no way around keyboard shortcuts! Or is there? In this post I like to show off a personal project, my very own macropad. In the projects section you’ll find an in depth look at the macro pad as well as all designs and source code.

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