Festival Hackday

For the BBC 6 Music Festival on Tyneside we've gathered together coders from local firms to spend 24 hours working on new ideas for live music events.

After 24h coding, 12 great projects were presented in front of the judges on Saturday afternoon at The Core in Tyneside. You can find information about all the projects in the HackerLeague page.

'Follow the music' allows you to discover and tune into what's on (live), what has been on previously and what's coming up. Users explore the festival through space and time, allowing those not lucky enough to get tickets to fully experience the festival and fantastic venues and artists.

Festival Bot is an SMS based festival assistant, you can get information about the festival via SMS. They were one of the few teams that stated overnight and didn't sleep for more than 24h.

What's On 6? is an Android Wear app which displays the most recent track played out on 6Music. During the festival you can be watching a gig or listening to the live stream and open the Wear app to show you the current playing track.

Follow the music used 7digital API and they also won the Best Hack of the Festival Hackday.

Air VU is a project to create a photographic visualisation of an audio track. It uses a light wand which has a string of LEDs that illuminates representing audio levels. When a track is played a camera shutter is left open and the wand is walked across in front of it. The resulting picture is a graph floating in the air representing the audio played.

Festival Bot, apart from winning the Best team award, they won the "Best use of Twilio API". If you don't know what Twilio is, here you have Phil explaining it in 6 seconds!

Twilio in 6 seconds

'Setlister' is a website that gives you the ability to vote for the songs you want your favourite band to play live. With interactive polling, bands can discover the songs their fans are dying to hear and add them to their setlist. During live performances audiences can vote for what songs they want to hear during the encore.