Over the Air and “something pretty spectacular” this weekend

This weekend sees the return of Over the Air – the two day “learn about cool mobile tools and then go hack something together and show us what you’ve got” event. While it’s not quite Mashed, the Baker Street Irregular 2.0 crowd is sure to be in attendance… and yes that does include me.

So I’ll be at Imperial College on Friday and Saturday, attending a number of panels and discussions from the likes of Vodafone, Nokia, OMTP, Windows Mobile, Yahoo and many more.

And then it’s the overnight building of something, possibly from these tools, possibly from other ideas, but all to do with mobile. The key of course is you build it at the event, no just bringing along something from the garage. What about the rules and goals for a hack at an event like this? Well, Tom Morris on Twitter just summed up my approach, so I shall quote him:

All rules can be broken if breaking them causes magic, laughter and awesomeness without hurting anyone.

Having previously re-filmed the last episode of Torchwood, launched a diet-coke powered spy rocket, and flown a full size flight simulator around the world, I think I can guarantee that this weekend’s hack will be magic, will cause laughter, and should be as awesome as Robin Cook resigning…

The Social Flight Sim in Action – Mashed Hackday 2008

PS: there’s always space on the project if people want to lend a hand – I do have a rough idea of what’s going to happen and as well as some coders, there’s space for people to help do the physical building, rigging up some lasers and projectors, do some cgi and real world modelling, and various other things. The more the merrier!