A team hard at work during What the Hack V4. Spending 24 hours in the same room working towards the same outcome, you get to know the person behind the job title.
To make friends. And working with friends is better than working with colleagues. A clear focus and a tight deadline push teams to make a lot of progress in a very short period of time. It drives us to find the core of a customer problem and focus on solving it. Every hackathon, after 24 hours of coding, we put at least one winning project into production.
And in that 24 hours, we enrich our roadmap with a speed and quality only possible during a hackathon. For three days, participants get to learn from each other. Being in an environment full of energy and determination not only motivates our teams, but opens their minds to new, previously unthinkable collaborative solutions. Better collaboration leads to better results. A hackathon participant in Berlin, Widening the mix of personalities, skills and backgrounds ensures that different perspectives and experiences can be taken into consideration.
Invisible challenges and possibilities arise, whether from engineers and designers learning from each other or colleagues from different cultures coming together to solve universal technology problems. Bringing the teams together does more than create a sense of community. For me, the TomTom hackathon is special. You could just treat it as another corporate event.
But even better, you can take it for what truly is: that magical moment when everyone comes together to work towards a common goal, finding purpose, motivation and building friendships along the way. Find your next job. People also read. OpenTom can be downloaded as pre-compiled images, or in source-code format for customising and self-compiling. No matter which route you choose, copy the two resulting binaries ttsystem and root. The OpenTom image is executed instead. For those not so bold, examining the TomTom's source code has yielded a litany of interesting tricks that can still customise the device while minimising risk because the actual images being executed are still the original, supplied, programs.
These tricks include making custom menu structures , changing the startup and shutdown screens and even adding utility via event loggers , offroad navigation and reversing an itinerary , helping you get back home again. There's no end to what can be achieved with little more than an inquisitive mind. If you have a TomTom, check out the OpenTom project and become familiar with the new things you can make your device do.
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