Auckland

  • Boat Ownership Simulator 2024

    Boat Ownership Simulator 2024

    Simulate the experience of owning a boat Created by Minh Phu Lai, Oliver Cooper, and Walter Lim Built by Oliver Cooper, Minh Phu Lai, and Walter Lim. Demo: https://waltzaround.github.io/placeboat/ Source: https://github.com/waltzaround/placeboat

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  • ShotBot

    ShotBot

    Why program your robots directly when you can get ChatGPT to do it for you! We get ChatGPT to write all the code for us and it’s automatically uploaded to the robot. then we see if it works! if not we tell ChatGPT what’s wrong and it tries again. in a few human generations we…

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  • The Outernet Experience – Tech for People who hate tech

    The Outernet Experience – Tech for People who hate tech

    The Outernet Experience is Tech for People Who Hate Tech. The setup allows you to live the lifestyle of the most advanced tech user and partake in the modern world – without using tech and giving up on ye olde times. The two screens can be used independently, individually or in a group. The Outernet…

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  • Memorial piñata (piñata la muerte)

    Memorial piñata (piñata la muerte)

    People think that piñatas are just for birthdays, but we’re here to bust that misconception wide open with our funeral piñatas! Put the fun into funeral and turn grandma’s send off into an experience worth remembering. Each piñata is lovingly handcrafted by our team to honour your loved one. Fill with your loved ones favourite…

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  • The Dumb Bells

    The Dumb Bells

    We have a very annoying dumbbell that taunts you and makes weird noises throughout your workout. It is also very uncomfortable to hold. The dumbbell aims to piss you off as much as possible. You can intern channel that anger into your workout, making your workout way more productive. Forget a breakup, the taunting dumbbell…

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  • Emotionally Needy Appliances

    Emotionally Needy Appliances

    Taking away the controls of your appliances and giving them to a rather lazy voice assistant. Created by Questionable Research Labs

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  • Things.co.nz

    Things.co.nz

    A website that checks Stuff.co.nz at regular intervals, and generates funnier and more bizarre versions of them. It uses ChatGPT (technically OpenAI) to generate the articles and thumbnails for them. Created by @matthewtaoexists @weizhouxue @v_a_r_s_2004 @alexwillmcleod Demo: https://terrible-hackathon.vercel.app Source: https://github.com/alexwillmcleod/terrible-hackathon

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  • Step back

    Step back

    A wearable hoola hoop with barbed wire that pokes anyone who comes too close to you. There’s an ultrasonic sensor w a buzzer that beeps when someone gets too close from your back close Created by @yasmin._.darwish (Team step back)

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