I participated a while ago in a Startup Weekend with the great Doctor Gianpaolo Rando from University of Geneva and a friend of Mine on a DNA project. It was very inspiring and because I am a very curious person I learned a lot during the process.
Two months later I got an email from the same Dr.Rando telling me he found a different way of solving a problem with his DNA Barcoding technique and the project involved beer ! How could I not get involved right ?
Beer Decoded : 1000 Beer genomes.
We will make an App
that tells you which beer you will like according to the previous beers you
drank (through DNA).
It took me a few days before understanding the project
myself so I had to read papers and blogs behind the DNA sequencing techniques
and discussing with our Beer Loving Scientist
helped a lot as well.
NY Kickstarter Hackathon
We created the project in order to be part of a selected
group of projects to go to New York for a Kickstarter Hackathon weekend.
Creating the campaign took us a while and made us think a lot about how our
Beer Sommelier App would work and how it would appeal to people ‘s interest. Our
project made it through the selections and Gianpaolo flew to New York to meet a
cool crew of designers and hackers to help the project go even further and to
finalise the Kickstarter campaign.
The campaign is now Live
on Kickstarter !
If you are beer lovers, science geeks, both or even curious
people that enjoy a cold one feel free to check it out and share with your
friends !
Cheers
Cheers
