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Hacktoberfest Hack Day Falmouth x Engineered Arts Ltd

Hacktoberfest 2026

Saturday October 17, 2026
11:00AM to 6:00PM BST
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Engineered Arts HQ
E1-E3, Church View Business Park, Bickland Water Rd
Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4FZ
United Kingdom
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Event Description

This is our first time running a Hacktoberfest event and we're super excited about it. Come along to Engineered Arts HQ, meet other people who enjoy to build things (with open source), and spend the day working on your project. Doesn't matter if you're deep into open source already, just curious about it, or simply like to code.

This year's challenge: Build a project that uses open-source or open-weight AI as an important part of how it works. Teams could create an agent skill, build with an open-weight large or small language model, or build or adapt an open-source model harness.

Requirements
- Open-source or open-weight AI has to be a genuinely important part of the project
- Project goes in a public GitHub repo with an open-source license
- Agent skills need to comply with the Agent Skill Open Standard
- Model-harness entries need original work or meaningful changes to an existing open-source harness

Full terms: https://hacktoberfest-handbook.mlh.com/fest-planning-guide/open-source-prize-categories#what-these-terms-mean

📅 Date: Saturday 17 October 2026
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Engineered Arts HQ, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
🍕 Snacks & drinks provided

Please note: As our HQ is a working robotics lab, all attendees will need to sign an NDA on arrival to protect robots in development. Nothing to do with the hackathon, just standard practice for anyone walking around a space full of robots and parts still in development

Be sure to share pics and screenshots with the community and tag #Hacktoberfest!

Who can attend?

Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:

Schedule

Hack Day Schedule
11:00 AM–5:45 PM
• 11:00–11:15 AM — Check-in
• 11:15–11:30 AM — Welcome and opening remarks
• 11:30 AM–5:00 PM — Build time
↳ 12:45–1:00 PM — Snack & coffee available
↳ 2:45–3:15 PM — Food available
↳ 4:30–5:00 PM — Project submissions
• 5:00–5:30 PM — Project demos
↳ 5:00–5:30 PM — Judging and winner declaration
• 5:30–5:45 PM — Winners and closing

Links & Resources

Gemma 4 Resources

General hub and documentation overview.

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Gemma Quickstart

Getting started guide and rapid API setup.

Open link →
Gemma API Docs

Endpoint specifications and API references.

Open link →
Gemma Beginner Guide

Step-by-step introduction for new developers.

Open link →

Hosted by

Natalia Waniczek
Richard Kirby
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We're a humanoid robotics company specialising in social robots. We're the crew behind famous Ameca. Our vision is to revolutionise the human experience through embodied AI, loved and trusted in every home.

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