Anvil Hack II is a student run hackathon focused on the creative applications of technology (this is not a prototyping session for your new startup!) taking place at a centre of creative computing research - Goldsmiths University of London

Use your skills to make something wonderful, arty, musical, or just plain old awesome. We'll provide you with food, drink, electricity and WiFi, so that you can get on with the real work - making cool things!

Eligibility

Our Hackathon is amined at students, but anyone can enter.

Requirements

Make sure you link to your degeration it blog post in your write up

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

11 non-cash prizes
Gold Anvil
1 winner

Rare Hacksmiths Sticker
10 winners

All projects chosen by our judges will be given a super rare extremely valuable vinyl sticker

Chrip.io
1 winner

The most creative use of chirps api will win a raspberry pi for each member of their team

Degenrationit Blog Post
2 winners

The best blog post on degerationit.com will get a Rasperry Pi 3 for each member of their team.

Stepsize
1 winner

The best project that incorporates machine learning will win drones for each of their team

Spotify
8 winners

Best music hack - Prize: 6 months Spotify Premium / One of 8 Gramofons.

Improbable
1 winner

A leap motion for Improbables fav hack.

.tech
1 winner

The best hack with a .tech domain wins a $50 amazon voucher for each member of their team

Amazon Web Services
1 winner

Best hack using AWS.

Every hackathon participant gets $100 free AWS credit, and the winners will each receive a hard drive.

GitHub Developer Tool
1 winner

Build the best developer tool to win.

Each member of the winning team will win a cute Octocat figurine.

Best domain.com domain
1 winner

Use your free domain.com domain in your project. Use the best domain to win. We're after funny, witty or clever names!

Each member of the winning team will win SparkFun RedBoard.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

Register on the Eventbrite, turn up, follow the rules, make something cool in 24 hours.

Judges

Bevis

Bevis
Hacksmiths

Hugh Rawlinson

Hugh Rawlinson
Spotify

Joe Nash

Joe Nash
Improbable

John Britton

John Britton
GitHub

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity
  • Fun

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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