1st Prototyping Weekend - Wallstream

Finally it’s time to announce the first Prototyping Weekend of this year. It took some time to finalize all the details about location, sponsors and organization.

The first weekend will be on the 9th and 10th of May and will be part of the European SME week. The location is ‘De Caballerofabriek‘ in The Hague, where we’ll have the biggest conference room during the weekend.

A Prototyping Weekend is meant to promote Open Innovation and to bring skilled people together to have a weekend full of fun and collaboration. The goal is to launch a fully functional web app within two days. All work created during the weekend will be licensed under open licenses and therefore will be available to the public to remix, share and re-use.

During the weekend only one app will be build. The idea for the first weekend is called ‘Wallstream’. An online application that allows users to create a backchannel for certain content, for example content related to their small web development company, and display it on a LCD TV or beamer in the office. We want to get the online content into the physical environment, bridge the gap between bits and atoms.

Currently we’re in some final conversations with CabFabLab (prototyping lab for physical products) in order to use their lab during the weekend. They have interfaces like Arduino. The prototype interfaces could be used to easily control the interface or to give signals when certain content is aggregated.

With the help of Maarten den Braber we created a meetup group where you can RSVP for the weekend. In the coming days we announce more details about the weekend and Wallstream.