The Hackathon is an opportunity to bring together members of the Harvard community to spend a day collaboratively experimenting with the technological and spatial affordances of Gund522. The hackathon will provide a crash-course on Greenhouse, a platform for building multi-use, multi-display interfaces with gestural and spatial interactions. Participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to explore new uses of and tools for the room. Members of metaLAB, GSD faculty and staff, and engineers from Oblong will be available throughout the day for support and feedback.

Spatial input devices will be provided, including Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion controllers, and wands. Greenhouse can also use mobile devices as sources for gestural input.

Although designers and coders are welcome, no previous skills are required. For those who do have some programming background, the Greenhouse SDK is available online with full documentation and sample programs. Greenhouse is available for Mac OSX and Linux.

More here: http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/gund522/about/hackathon/ 
Feel free to email mezz@gsd.harvard.edu with any questions.