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IPFS Camp Sci-Fi videos 🧬 |
Arkadiy Kukarkin |
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Hot on the heels of IPFS Camp videos covering lightning talks, deep dives, poster projects and core + elective courses come the interviews from our sci-fi fair.
In keeping with the fun and exploratory spirit of the camp, we put a twist on the usual conference demo area with our Sci-Fi Fair. We challenged our campers to bring their most surprising, experimental, interactive, scientific projects: in short, a vision of what the IPFS universe could look like in a future, or slightly askew, timeline.
See the complete-ish (we had quite a few guerilla participants!) list of Fair projects for more details, or skip to the playlist if you're impatient.
Long-time IPFS community members Textile brought their crowd favorite p2p photobooth, as well as a game of cryptographically verified Interplanetary Tag (or arguably Interplanetary Assassin)
Hector and the rest of the IPFS Cluster team came through with a project high in fun, fabric, and blinking lights: the Raspberry Pi IPFS Cluster. Six tiny but mighty (and lovingly upholstered) nodes tirelessly worked together to pin whatever CIDs were thrown at them and reported their pinset load through an ingenious hardware display. Not pictured: @cluster-labs' Horizon UI for IPFS Cluster giving fair attendees even more fine-grained insights into the pinset.
Alex Potsides’s npm-in-a-box project
BONUS: If you like big IPFS nodes running on small computers (and/or "The IT Crowd"), you may also enjoy Alex's "npm in a box", which packs the entire NPM package repository on a very portable (and pretty sleek looking) RPi based IPFS node with a BIG archival grade hard drive. Take this with you on your field trip and your team will never see an npm timeout ever again.
The MetaMask crew brought a tool that proved invaluable in their network connectivity diagnostics: a DHT visualizer. Following some wireless network trouble (a real-world scenario to be sure), we were treated to some beautiful visualizations of network connectivity.
These are just some of the projects that made it to the Fair: head over to the offical Fair playlist to catch the rest of the videos, as well as the full cuts of the interviews above. Don't miss Berty's Bluetooth Low Energy p2p transport, Brave's one-click in-browser IPFS, and more!
Our tireless camera crew could only be in one place at a time (we're working on it), which has left some of our favorite projects sadly underdocumented in the video department. Here are some stills that fill in the gaps:
Marnee Dearman's IPFS-over-Ham Radio FARS project and Jérôme's IPFS Chat on a French Minitel terminal
Vasa's CRDT-based collaborative 3D modeling interface
[Jérôme Loï](https://github.com/goth goth)'s libp2p-powered Lazer Catbot (unfortunately no cats were on premises)
Actyx's Rüdiger has somehow managed to avoid ALL photos at the fair, so here's a shot of him demoing their amazing industrial automation system from the lightning talks
Last but not least, Adin's "Fast IPNS" demo (it was VERY FAST!)
Huge thanks to our SciFi Fair participants for making IPFS Camp so out-of-this-world! If you're excited by any of these projects, please do get involved by checking out the sci-fi fair repo or reaching out to presenters directly about their work.
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