Kscope15 (#kscope15) was hosted at Diplomat resort along beautiful Hollywood Beach, and the Scavenger Hunt from OAUX AppsLab infused a hint of fun and excitement between the packed, busy, and serious sessions.
The Scavenger Hunt was quite a comprehensive system for people to win points in various ways, and keep track of events, points and a leaderboard. And of course, we had one Internet of Things (IoT) component that people could search for and tap to win points.
And here is the build, with powerful battery connected to it, complete with anti-theft feature, which is double-sided duct tape 🙂 All together, it is a stand-alone, self-contained, and definitely mobile, computer.
Isn’t it cool? I overheard on multiple occasions people say it was the coolest thing at the conference.
One of the bartenders at the Community Night reception wanted to trade me the “best” drink of the night for my Raspberry Pi.
I leased it to him for two hours, and he gave me the drink. That fact is that I would put the Raspberry Pi on his table anyway for the community night event, and he would give me the drink anyway if I knew how to order it.
On the serious side, APEX (Oracle Applications Express) had a good showing with many sessions. Considering our Scavenger Hunt Web Admin was built on APEX, I am interested in learning it too. After two hands-on sessions, I did feel that I’d use it for quick web app in the future.
On the database side, the most significant development is ORDS (Oracle REST Data Services) and the ability to call a web end-point from within database. This opens up possibility of monitoring data/state change at the data level, and triggering events into a web server, which in turn can trigger client reaction via WebSocket.
Again the Kscope15 was a very fruitful event for us, as we demonstrated Scavenger Hunt game and provoked lots of interest. It has some potential for large event and enterprise application, so stay tuned while we make some twist to it in the future.
Editor’s note: Raymond (@yuhuaxie) forgot to mention how much fun he had at Kscope15. Pics because it happened:
ODTUG (@odtug) commissioned a short film, which was shot, edited and produced during the week that was Kscope15. It debuted during the Closing Session, and they have graciously shared it on YouTube. It’s 10 minutes, but very good at capturing what I like about Kscope so much.
Noel appears to talk about the Scavenger Hunt at 7:29. Watch it here.