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Highlights from the Eclipse SDV Student Hackathon and upcoming Munich challenge
Hackathons serve as a catalyst for innovation, collaboration, learning, and community building within the open-source development community. And they are an excellent opportunity for young talents to contribute their own ideas and to learn from professionals from the automotive industry. As part of the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group in initiative, various hackathons are organized in which the current Eclipse SDV projects are used to solve real automotive challenges.
As part of the joint effort to build up a common stack for the software-defined vehicle members of the Eclipse SDV Working Group together with the Wolfsburg 42 coding school and students of its SEA:ME program organized the Eclipse SDV Student Hackathon which took place from 6-7 November. ETAS experts active in the Eclipse SDV Working Group projects Leda, Velocitas and Kuksa prepared a nice hack challenge, which asked the coders to implement in one and a half day a Crash Diagnostics Service by means of Eclipse Velocitas as programming model and Automotive App SDK, Eclipse Leda as deployment target and Eclipse Kuksa as abstraction layer for vehicle signals based on COVESA’s Vehicle Signal Specification.
Solving the hack challenge
Goal of the hack challenge was an implementation of an in-vehicle application based on Eclipse Velocitas consuming VSS Signals via a Kuksa.val data broker running on an Eclipse Leda image and sending a package of collected sensor values of a certain time window before an incident to a cloud backend for further analysis.
After some introductory talks on November 6th delivered by Vasil Ivanov on Eclipse Leda, Dennis Meister on Eclipse Velocitas and Johannes Kristan on Eclipse SDV in general as well as the topic of the coding challenge, the students worked until November 7th in 6 teams on solving the challenge. All young developers were quickly getting traction in setting up a running development environment and getting the first examples running.
After the first setup phase the teams found clever ways to implement the challenge, from queue-based algorithms for time window-based sensor value collection up to custom CAN provider implementations for Eclipse Kuksa’s data broker for the PiRacer demonstrator platform. “It was real fun seeing the students working so enthusiastically on the topic and achieving great results after such a short time”, says Johannes Kristan, Senior Expert Open Source at ETAS.
The next hack challenge is just around the corner
From 28-30 November the community will meet in Munich for the Eclipse SDV Hackathon Challenge 2023. Participants will be led through a two-and-a-half day coding marathon by coaches from major OEMs, Tier 1 and automotive technology companies including CARIAD, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, Bosch, Continental, Microsoft, and of course from ETAS.
Register here for the event: https://sdv.eclipse.org/sdv-hackathon-2023/
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