On my way home from a satisfying, fun and exhausting hackathon with my smart america buddies. Over the past three days as many as 7 of us from two start ups , two universites, on big company and a coutny government .. We were stundent , entrepreneurs, professors and beurocrats (thats me 🙂 workign to make sensor data free and openl . We coded, soldered, argued, did, undid, redid and hacked our brains out. We interfaced about four differnttype of circuits, used three langugaes, multiple protocils, several hosting platforms, spools of wire, solder, circuits.. And ate our weight in thai, indian, japanese and italian food… Ive rarely worked this hard.. And this was play… So satisfying ! .. We finshed today at about 5:30.. It took us 30 min to clean the mess we'd made

I totally loved workign with this crew of folks.. And look forward to continue to work on this smart america project. On june 10th were takign it to the white house to show the CTO of the US what we came up with (i hope its done by then !)

I want to thank our hosts at the the Montgomery County MD executive offices.. Especially dan hoddman who drove us, fed us, encouraged us and focused us. We ended the weekend wiht a great barbecue in the hoffman backyard.. With his great family. I also want to shout out to SCALE team members kyle, Charles, nalini, gushi, dan, jullien, .. And the folks hwo helped from afar..luke, charles, matt .. Thank you all.. Awesome teamwork !

Ok.. Back to real work tomorrow morning… Yikes

Nite all, nite sam !

-me

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Greetings from Rockville Maryland. I'm down here working with a team of five other people on a project for smart America.as part of the presidential fellows program. The idea is to show real applications of Internet of things systems. . In 20 days we have to do a demonstration at the White House of our Internet of things project. So we are working hard to make sure it works well..Our project is a true open collaboration between industry, public-sector, universities and start ups. It's all about the exchange open data in motion.

We all got here midmorning and I've been working until about midnight in a conference room in the Montgomery county executive office building which we've taken over.. Its a flurry of JavaScript, Python, raspberry pi s , Arduinos, sub GHz radios, thai food, beer, personal histories, bad jokes, electronic music, political rants, swearing… A wonderful mess… I am in my element!

Got to get sleep… You got two more days of work.
Night all, night Sam
– Me

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