codeaholicshk/hackathons.201408.ibeacon

hackathons.201408.ibeacon

Projects

1. Beacon Babe - Groupbuy in Supermarket

Find partner in supermarket to get group buy discount. and perhaps a dating chance ?

Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/AK51/beaconbabe-on-ha

Source Code: https://github.com/edwardfung123/beaconbabe Source Code: https://github.com/sunnycyk/ios-beaconbabe

Team:

• Andy Kong: andykong51@gmail.com
• Matthew Chiu: mchiu77@gmail.com
• Sunny Cheung: sunnycyk@yahoo.com
• Edward Fung: edwardfung123@gmail.com
• Niko Chiu: niko880520@gmail.com

2. Open Beacon Directory

Online directory of iBeacon UUID and location information

3. Chortle - Geofencing Voting Apps

You can only vote if you stay at the venue for a long enough period of time

4. Research on iBeacon in Museum

How to enhance Museum expreience with latest location based technology ?

Presentation Slides: http://goo.gl/Ewvhyd

5. Daily Loyalty Program

Sample code to do a daily checkin apps. Swift, Parse and iBeacon

Source Code: https://github.com/3dd13/daily_loyalty_program

Team:

• Eddie Lau 3dd13@42la.bs

6. Sphero, Follow Me !

Sample code to auto pilot the robot following the controller. Robot keeps in certain distance with the controller. Swift, Sphero SDK and iBeacon

Source Code: https://github.com/3dd13/sphero_follow_me

Team:

• Eddie Lau 3dd13@42la.bs

Development References

• iBeacon basics
• Swift iBeacon Tutorial
• Swift iBeacon sample by Passkit
• Objective-C iBeacon sample
• Objective-C iBeacon discussion : Sample code, UX and Permission Matrix consideration
• Android iBeacon API
• Cordova iBeacon Plugin 1 : Supports both Android and iOS
• Cordova iBeacon Plugin 2 : Supports both Android and iOS
• Running Mac as iBeacon
• Google Glass iBeacon sample
• Passkit References

Random ideas

• Other than Retail use cases
• Non ad use cases
• Real world application

Consideration: iBeacon or not ?

• detection range comparison between different geo location sensors
• devices compatibility
• UX
• cost
• setup

Estimote in Garage Society

• Use Estimote App to search for them.

• UUID: B9407F30-F5F8-466E-AFF9-25556B57FE6D

8/F Reception:

major: 8 / minor: 7102

8/F Member Zone:

major: 8 / minor: 31008

8/F Batman Classroom:

major: 8 / minor: 31664

9/F Reception:

major: 9 / minor: 62353

9/F Open Area:

major: 9 / minor: 26057

9/F Roof:

major: 9 / minor: 50549