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Welcome to the Wiki supporting the Ford Electric Vehicle Hackathon, held at Tech Shop Menlo Park on September 7-8, 2013.
The intention with this hackathon is to provide the developer community a unique opportunity to interface with Ford Motor Company's electrified vehicles. We have modified the OpenXC interface for three Ford energi (Plug-In Hybrid Electric) vehicles to export a much richer signals set, but also support beta APIs allowing you to control select functionality of the cars. While these extended and beta interfaces will only be available during this event, we hope to inspire you to come up with new ideas on writing apps that makes use of the car, and at the same time provide feedback for us on how you would like the official interfaces develop in the future.
This wiki contains documentation of the modified APIs, a list of who is attending, and a page where you can share your hack ideas in order to recruit more people to your "team".
To participate in this event, please sign up at the Tech Shop Signup Page. Also, note that by participating, you implicitly agree to our standard Confidential Disclosure clauses.
- Equipment: bring a laptop and a compatible Android device if you have one
- Watch a screencast of the Android library setup and initial app development
- Download the Android Developer Tools Bundle.
- Build your first Android app
- Install the OpenXC library
- Install the Enabler
- Add vehicle data to your app by following the tutorial
- Learn more about how the Android library is designed
- Set up the beta hackathon APIs
- If you get stuck, check out the troubleshooting steps.
Friday, September 6, 2013, 7-9 PM - Welcome Session
- Welcome presentation
- API Walk-through
- Q&A Sessions
During this session you will be introduced to the vehicle we will make available, the extended API for the weekend. If you have never used the OpenXC public API before we will also help you setup with the basic configuration. We will finish with a Q&A session. Food will be served.
Saturday, September 7, 2013, 10 AM - 10 PM - Hackathon session with Vehicle Availability
Sunday, September 8, 2013, 10 AM - 10 PM - Hackathon session with Vehicle Availability
Between 10 AM and 10 PM on both Saturday and Sunday, the three test vehicles will be available for you to test your creations on. Ford will provide a safety-trained driver so that you can concentrate on debugging and verifying your applications. We will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner throughout the day.
- Projects should use real-time data gathered with OpenXC.
- Projects may be user-facing or intended for out-of-vehicle use. If your project is user-facing in a vehicle, see the NHTSA user interface guidelines. Ford staff can also help you with design considerations for in-vehicle UIs.
- At the conclusion of the event, Ford staff will judge each project and select winners. We will score each project on originality, technical depth, use of OpenXC data, coolness, and potential impact to Ford customers.
- The deadline for submitting an entry is 8:00 PM on Sunday and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter.
- NOTE: Ford cannot accept confidential information from participants. Please see Confidential Disclosure for more information.
Developer information: APIs, documentation,etc.
List your ideas here if you want to attract people to your idea and collaborate on a group effort.
We will provide prizes for the best creations at the end of the weekend. These include:
- A week long loan of a Ford Focus Electric Vehicle
- 2 TechShop Gift Packages including a 3 month membership + 2 choice classes (valued at $299 each)
- 2 Amazon Gift Cards of $200 each
- OpenXC 2nd generation interfaces
Share your thoughts around the API this weekend and give us ideas on what information and control you would like to see in future APIs!