Thank you to all who attended and developed, original apps at this New York’s first iPad DevCamp event! It was a great success and we are definitely looking forward to many more in the nearby future!
The heart of a DevCamp is the Hack-a-thon and we are happy to (belatedly) post the results of the DevCamp hacking contest. Below is a list of teams that created some of the most inventive, fun, and useful applications at DevCamp and we’ve additional descriptions, links, and some contact information. If you have additional information you want us to post about your entry, email us at info@codefab.com.
Campfire Application – Most original!
- Created by: Vincent Youmans, James Sabia, Ron Anderson, Harry Bowen, Chris Welsh, Jean Leong
- Description: Great campfire effect, in which sound from iPad campfire cooks iPhone marshmallows. Proximity detection or shake to reset marshmallow
- Watch the App in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgvwaaYBFeQ
- For more information you can contact: : james.sabia@team.aol.com
Bread Application – Most likely to be used by Steve Jobs in an iPad presentation!
- Created by: Sean, Sandira, Ariel, Steve Liu, Staney Sulamet
- Description: Runs as an application in Safari that rotates and manipulates images on the canvas to make pages more magazine like without Adobe Suite.
- For more information you can contact: sulamet@yahoo.com
I Peel Onion Application – Coolest app!
- Created by: Jesse Pickard, Lucy Zhang
- Description: Cut through the noise of lots of tweets, and shows tweets and dial and graph. Add metadata to tweet
- Real time voting on events for people!
NSTeam Application – Most likely to be used by developers!
- Created by: Andy Rifkin, Jeff Barg, Devin Duty
- Description: Syntax editor for iPad, Split view with list of files and edit space with syntax highlights, Uses core text
- To see photos and read more about the app go to: http://www.4-iPad.com
Stewie- Most likely to be used by Jason Calicanis
- Created by: Daria, Gilad, Mike Feola, Martin Volerich, Steve
- Description: Social gaming, ipad server, iphones clients, Bluetooth, game kit, universal app, players connect.
Wee Atlas Application – Most useful!
- Created by: Steve, Joshua Vickery, Matt Ferry, Seanita, Nir Pengas
- Description: Zoom in on country and interact with pictures, slide show under each category
- To learn more, visit: http://jsv.mine.nu/gallery/v/misc/iPadDevCampNYC/
Dragonflies Application – Most educational!
- Created by: Tom Fruenhoffer, Eva Potter, Praveen Aravamudham, Steve Bull, Charissa Smith, Ann McDermott, Hiroumi Mitani
- Description: Backyard bugs! Catch bugs or squish, look in jar, get info about bugs and uses cocos2d
Twitter All Stars: Heltweetic.3 Application – Best social app!
- Created by: Thomas Alvarez, Lucius Kwok, Jeff Soto
- Description: Shows twitter avatars in a grid, allows user to randomly choose one.
- For more information you can contact: jeff@indiancode.net or dmthomas@mac.com
VectorZombie Application – Best game!
- Created by: Jonathan Miller and Karen Jones
- Description: Snowboarding through a field of zombies!
- To see more go to: http://cryptogram.com/zombieboard/
- if you have any questions you can contact: jm@jonathanmillertechnology.com : @notjonathan on Twitter and Karen@geekgirl.com
Ghost in the Machine – Best iPad app!
- Created by: Dominic Tancredi, Danny Sand, Peter Levine, Carolyn Gargano, Catrina Lohan, Scott Benglo, Yan Wong, John Fitzpatrick
- Description: Ghost in the machine ouija board, and has sound, animation takes finger input.
- To see the App in use go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTtI2TMdqA
- if you more questions you can contact: meta.phx@gmail.com
BoomBox Application - Most commercial!
- Created by: Steven Levy, Erin Disselhorst, Rob Kelley, Matt
- Description: Plays music and looks good
CookIt – Best Under Pressure (cooker)
- Created by: Tim Kaminski, Dana
- Description: Sound activated ipad cookbook, you can move to the next step in the recipe with a sound
If we got your name wrong, or lost a last name or contact email, or even if you just want to update the description, ping us at info@codefab.com – we want to get it right!