What happens when you set Dyson engineers on a Rapid Development Challenge?
"What happens when you set Dyson engineers on a Rapid Development Challenge? Just another day in the office
The challenge: design and develop an intelligent machine based on one of the following themes: The Connected Home, Gamification of Dyson Products and Accessibility through Usability. And do it all in 24 hours.
Inside Dyson’s Research, Design and Development hubs across the UK and Singapore, 200 hardware and mechanical engineers teamed up with software and electronics engineers, to take part in a digital codeathon. The challenge channelled skills in connectivity, AI, machine learning and smart navigation systems, and the engineering teams had access to the latest testing and development facilities.
On average participants slept for just two hours during the event, wrote over 6,000 lines of code, and consumed more than 500 energy drinks and coffee to complete their projects, which included: smart home sensory systems that were able to detect individuals within different rooms using cluedo algorithms, virtual reality worlds which used 3D imagery mapping from pictures taken by a drone and Jake Dyson CSYS light synthesizers.
One group built an app, which was connected to a Raspberry Pi, and able to play ‘I spy with my little eye’ with the user, by automatically selecting an object in a room and sending clues to a smart phone.
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