Warning: This is an older blog post. I am including it just for posterity, and in the interest of just keeping all my old writing from my “earlier” days.
As mentioned in my last post, I was working on the Sense Your City competition hosted by Data Canvas. The results are in and I won the Marker Prize. That means two things:
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I didn’t actually win the really attractive grand prize which included a couple flights all over the world and something around $3,000.
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That said, I did still nab $500 and a nice little ego boost, so I think I’ll take it. It isn’t $500 to spend wherever I want, though. It has to be spent, it sounds like, at a website called SeeedStudio. That seems like plenty to play with, though, and I think it would be cool to buy a Raspberry Pi and maybe take my first stab at something in that vein of tinkering.
One of the two grand prize winners, Urban Heartbeat, has a really cool project up over at their website. It involves a sort of audio interpretation of the data each sensor is producing. It’s pretty fun; I suggest checking it out.