Last week, we held a Digi Employee Hackathon to put the new XBee Wi-Fi Cloud Kit to the test. This is one of several ways we are working on designing outstanding user experiences for new Digi products. With the kits, the teams were able to build projects that connected with the cloud right away. One team member reported, “I got from the box to the cloud in under 20 minutes.” Using the kit’s dashboard, new widgets were developed to whimsically represent data being collected by Device Cloud. Rain, food safety and even child development were addressed by our project teams.
I’m looking forward to doing more of these internal hackathons in the coming year. They’re fun!