Metal Toad’s AWS Media Services Hackathon
This is an exciting week at Metal Toad—it’s hackathon time! Twice a year, the Toads devote two full days to rapid innovation, and it’s always a blast.
This is an exciting week at Metal Toad—it’s hackathon time! Twice a year, the Toads devote two full days to rapid innovation, and it’s always a blast.
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The banner and food feed have placeholder images that are ready to accept an avatar image. Now on to storing and retrieving an avatar in an s3 bucket...
As an intern, what are you looking to gain? A better resume? Experience? A portfolio piece? More connections? Paid for your time?
Working at Metal Toad is all about innovation.
Going into the latest hackathon, I knew there were several options for building a virtual reality (VR) app for Android devices.
When Metal Toad announced the theme of the winter Hackathon would be Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), those of us who have focu
Metal Toad’s winter 2018 hackathon was all about Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR).
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This year’s hackathon challenge was to explore the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud technology.
Do a search on “IoT projects” and you’ll turn up endless pages of fantastic Internet of Things ideas and examples.
This year’s hackathon was all about the Internet of Things (IoT)—pulling data from the real world and sending it to the cloud, then finding ways to...
I spend all my time at work dealing with software. So going into this year’s hackathon, I was excited to get hands-on (and in over my head) with...
If you’re going to spend two long days frying a Raspberry Pi and fiddling with (very) finicky electronics, is there any better way to do it than...
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I was dusting off my copy of Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines tod
For our latest Hackathon, with the theme being the Internet of things (IoT), my team and I wanted to create a device that would encourage people in...
Metal Toad's second hackathon will be focused on the Internet of Things. Why IoT? Over the years we have accumulated broad experience in this area;...
Everyone wants to change the world, but in order to do so, you have to put on pants. I found a loophole. That loophole is web development.