Garage48 Visual Hackathon 2018
hackathons.date 2018-06-08 – 2018-06-10
hackathons.location Minsk, Belarus
Project Yellow Blue Bus
Build history
Project timeline
- 01
Start from a phonetic bridge
Use the Yellow Blue Bus phrase as the entry point for a visual communication tool about language, emotion, and cultural misunderstanding.
- 02
Build the first visual prototype
Turn the idea into an early interface that treated translation as more than text, using visual signals and emotional context as part of the communication layer.
- 03
Preserve the question
Leave the weekend with the first version of Yellow Blue Bus and a clearer design question: how can an interface help emotion cross a language boundary without pretending to fully decode it?
Longer tail
What happened after the hackathon
Current status
Idea continued the same summer
Yellow Blue Bus began at Garage48 Visual Hackathon 2018 and was later taken to LOVEHACK Minsk 2018 for a second build focused more directly on relationships, emotion, and cross-language communication.
- Garage48 Visual Hackathon 2018 should be treated as the origin and first-version build.
- LOVEHACK Minsk 2018 should be treated as the continuation, not the same event.
- The blog post about Yellow Blue Bus now links this two-hackathon path explicitly.
Project thread
Follow the related story
Some hackathon ideas moved between rooms. These cards keep the events separate while making the project path easy to follow.
Continuation
LOVEHACK Minsk 2018
Follow the same Yellow Blue Bus idea into the later LOVEHACK build, where the project moved from visual communication toward intimacy, emotion, and relationship interfaces.
Article
Yellow Blue Bus at LOVEHACK Minsk
Read the longer HAAM note about how the project carried emotion across language barriers and why that question stayed relevant.