List of hackathons about wearables in 2016

The Stupid Hackathon is organized purely for fun! Your projects will be purely judged by hilarity, uselessness, and fun factor! Work diligently on projects that make no sense at all. Make something we will all regret!

This is the first FIVR hackathon (Finland VR Hackathon), a weekend long event for virtual reality and augmented reality enthusiasts to share ideas and come together to craft experiences with the latest VR platforms and gadgets. The topics that are to be covered on the weekend are: bringing archive material into AR/VR/360 environment Yle, building a way to travel through the history of libraries Central Library, and introducing new life to old stereoscopic images Helsinki City Museum. If you have your own topic in mind, then you are encouraged to pitch it during the topic presentations on Friday. You should bring your own laptop, tablet, VR gear, crayons and whatever else you think you might need for the event. You will be provided with WLAN, working space for the weekend, food and drinks.

TADHack and and Universidad ORT Uruguay are partnering up for a mini hackathon in the city of Montevideo. All universities and local developer are invited to participate. The event will run in Spanish, with some English translation, and pitches can be Spanish or English. This event aims to unleash the creativity and engineering excellence of Uruguay through telecom application development.

This VR Hackathon is inviting all developers, designers, and visual/graphics/sound artists to build apps and VR experiences for the VR Passport campaign, a campaign to make a positive impact on others' lives. There will be mentors present at the event with experience on different aspects of VR development during the two workshops and the hackathon. You will have access to the WearHacks hardware library and will be able to use Project Tango's Development kit for your project. There will be two workshops organized prior to the hackathon for those of you who do not have a lot of experience with VR platforms. You will get familiar with Project Tango tablet dev kit and other wearables/VR/IoT devices. Anyone is welcome to participate, but as the event can only support a limited number of participants, there is an application process dependent on some criteria including: previous experience with developing on VR platforms, review of previous work, project proposal, and general team makeup (engineers, designers, artists).

The Halifax hackathon is the next hackathon ever since the Global Game Jam in January, and this time it will be open to anything: hardware, software, games, etc. In other words, if you can hack it, you can make it! The main aim of this event is for you to make something awesome, meet fellow developers, designers, techies, and startupers in Halifax, show off what you made and win amazing prizes!

This is a hackathon where teams of designers, developers, tinkerers and thinkers are invited to get together and build something from start to finish in just 24 hours. You are free to create any technology you like including apps, software or physical products. At the end of the weekend, teams will be asked to pitch their ideas and completed products to a panel of notable judges. There will be a cash prize for overall winner.

At this Hackathon developers will have approximately 24 hours to turn their ideas into applications using their own programming skills and design, working in teams of 4 people, with the support of experts. Teams will be free to use any programming language in order to develop applications that improve the community. What you will need is your laptop with charger, cell phone charger, gadgets, blanket or sleeping bag for the night, personal cleaning articles. The event is completely free of charge and anyone who has the skills to develop software (students, programmers, freelancers and anyone who knows develop code) is welcome!

Digital Harbor presents the Abilities Hackathon, a collaborative effort to engage the tech community in solving the needs of people with impacted abilities

SkyWatch hosting the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for the Waterloo Region. This hackathon will attract Waterloo’s top tech and non-technical talent including: developers, makers, citizen scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who will be asked to work non-stop for 48 hours to address NASA-designed challenges. The two winning solutions from the Waterloo challenge will move on to compete with other winners from across the globe, to be judged by the NASA International Space Apps Challenge team. This year’s event will include the unveiling of Canada’s first ever accelerator focused on space startups. The Canadian space industry will make this program become a reality right in the Waterloo district. More details will be reveal at the event.

This is a two day hackathon to work on new ideas and applications. Apps World Germany is the main meeting place for the growing European developer community, new and exciting start-ups and the most innovative mobile first brands, to discuss the hottest and most current topics within the mobile and app space in the region. You will be provided with food, drinks and entertainment.