First "kickelhack" hackathon at the TU Ilmenau
30 technology enthusiasts, seven problems and 48 hours to work on exciting software projects: At the first Ilmenau "kickelhack" hackathon at the TU Ilmenau, organized by students for students, young people from a wide range of disciplines met in the Ilmkubator start-up service's Finnhütten to spend a weekend programming together. From implementing an additive synthesizer and classifying bird calls using machine learning techniques to processing image data to identify products on supermarket shelves, the event partners Fraunhofer IDMT, Fraunhofer IOSB-AST, MetraLabs GmbH and Thüringer Zentrum für Lernende Systeme und Robotik (TZLR) had set tricky tasks.