53 years ago, 100,000 people gathered in San Francisco for the Summer of Love.
It’s not an event or program. It’s a theme for the summer, a challenge to every teenager reading this: What will you make?
To suppport you, we’re distributing $50,000 in free electronics (thanks GitHub!) & building Snapchat streaks for coding—but really Summer of Making is about you. If this will be the best summer ever, it’ll be because of what you choose to hack on & learn from.
GitHub is sponsoring $50k worth of hardware grants for student makers, alongside support from Adafruit & Arduino for gear.
Hardware grants
We want hardware hackers of any experience and no experience—whether it’ll be your first time soldering or your thousandth. Any 1) Plausible, 2) Cost-Effective, and 3) Inspired idea is eligible.
As you learn & make projects, share short photo/video updates each day & build a streak. You can even put custom CSS all over your profile & use your domain.
See what everyone’s makingI am so angry that I am no longer a competitive programming expert so today I have challenged myself to upsolve the 3 problems I failed.......... 😠 😡 OOF
Have been working on this project for the past few days. In #projectideas @rohan.geo.2001 posted the idea of making a text detection program that would be able to "read" doctor prescriptions (those are pretty hard to read 😅), so me and R.G decided to collab. We started learning how to detect texts from images (called offline text detection), and then "upgrade" the code to receive input from the webcam instead of images (called online text detection). I just reached that point. The next steps are turning the project into artificial intelligence so it can be trained to read doctors' hand writings. If you want to be take part in this project or give us a hand, feel free to DM me.
Did nothing much today, busy with school's online classes, so here's a pic of our little maker for you!
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