Event Summary

NCTU Programming Marathon was held on Mar 18th-19th 2017 in Hsinchu NCTU with 22 groups in total from different universities in Taiwan. As one of the sponsors, we ARM offered a certain amount of sponsorship and technical support as well for the competition. We had four ARM staff sent to the event including Laura Li (from Shanghai), GR Chen (from Taiwan), Brent Lei (from Beijing) and me (from Shanghai).

Hackathon, Verification and Presentation

All the participants kept working for totally 24 hours to finish their projects, including design, coding, debugging, and optimization, during which Brent Lei and I (Maggie Mei) kept walking around every once in a while to offer them technical support. After they finished, GR Chen, Brent Lei and I (Maggie Mei) helped verify their achievement. Presentations by the students. And GR Chen presented awards to the winners!

Detail Information

Among all the Participants there were four teams choosing different ARMmbed platforms with different development tools. Below is some relevant information.

• Group 16 (1st runner-up): using NUCLEO-L476RG to identify the elevator and motor behavior through sound.
  • Made by two ungraduated girls, so great!
  • Idea is fairly creative.
  • Using mbed platform to collect sound data and analyze.
  • But hard to identify the sound of motor from lots of noisy especially in megamalls.
• Group 28 (winner): using NUCLEO-L476RG to design a field activity and safety tracking system based on accelerometer.
  • Idea is great with strong commercial application.
  • Mbed enabled board, sensor, ZigBee, WIFI are used in the project.
  • More tests for the accuracy need be added.
• Group 29 (2nd runner-up): using NUCLEO-F429ZI to design a parking management system to offer the parking service timely and automatically.
  • Idea is great.
  • Try to use mbed board to finish the analyzation of images collected.
  • Finally failed due to the lack of some necessary components and available mbed boards.
  • Should research more before the event to prepare everything.
• Group 31 (2nd runner-up): using STM32F429 to design an ECG induction system used in telemedicine.
  • Good idea, good achievement.
  • Less relationship with mbed.

The Marathon was run quite successfully. All the photos for the event can be found here.