Bike Hack Night V

Bike Hack Night is a show & tell of bicycle-related apps, data visualizations, and gadgets. Doors open at 6:30 for pizza, beer, and soft drinks, with speakers starting at 7:00.

We are thrilled to be returning to WeWork at the Wonderbread Factory (https://www.wework.com/locations/washington-d-c/wonder-bread-factory). And once again we will be welcoming attendees of the National Bike Summit (http://www.bikeleague.org/summit), the conference put on by the League of American Bicyclists (http://www.bikeleague.org/).

Our speakers are:

• Tom MacWright (http://www.macwright.org/) will recount how he helped create dccode.org (http://dccode.org/) in order to enforce keeping the 14th St bikelanes from being blocked (https://gist.github.com/tmcw/3489037) by restaurant valets.

• Matt Fowle (https://twitter.com/rektide) will show how he built a sound system for his bike using Chromecast audio, Raspberry Pi, and Mopidy.

• Jonathan and Kyle (https://twitter.com/weidman_kyle) Weidman will demo their app for Two Wheel Valet (http://twowheelvalet.com/) that lets users to check and claim their bikes via text message.

• Chris Slatt (http://alongthepike.com/) will talk about how he stitched together the DC Frankenmap (http://dcbikemap.com/), and made heatmaps (http://dcbikemap.com/heat/) of the Freezing Saddles (http://freezingsaddles.com/) riders.

• Amir Farhangi and Matt Triner of District Ninja (http://district.ninja/) will dive into DC's open data to build maps and dataviz about bicycle safety.

• Brian Frickert will demo his app that can forecast bike trail usage in Arlington (https://bfrickert.shinyapps.io/data_product_project/).

See what was presented at previous events: Bike Hack Night I (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/168585592/), Bike Hack Night II (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/200015252/), Bike Hack Night III (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/220449315/), and Bike Hack Night IV (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/226911922/). Read more at Transportation Techies Show What Can Be Done With Bike Data (http://mobilitylab.org/2014/05/28/transportation-techies-show-what-can-be-done-with-bike-data/) and D.C. Using Data to Envision Bike Lanes of the Future (http://mobilitylab.org/2014/11/13/d-c-using-data-to-envision-bike-lanes-of-the-future/).

BikeHackNight is made possible by support from our sponsors at the Bike Summit, Mobility Lab (http://mobilitylab.org/) and CustomInk Tech (http://technology.customink.com/). Many thanks!

Our hashtag is #bikehacknight (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bikehacknight) (and #nbs16 (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nbs16) for the Bike Summit). Follow @techiesdc (https://twitter.com/techiesdc) for "Transportation Techies" updates.