Stop
Watching.
Start
Building.
5 consecutive online build nights. Top builders get invited to a 24-hour in-person hackathon at TinkerSpace Kochi. Free. No experience needed.
Next Hack Night
Creative Coding
March 28, 2026 · 6:00 PM IST · Online
Our Philosophy
Learn by Doing.
Explore by Building.
Build, Don't Watch
The best way to understand a technology is to build something with it. Not follow a tutorial. Not read docs. Build.
Explore Depth, Not Breadth
Each hack night goes deep into one domain — hardware, AI, web, CLI, creative coding. We're tech makers across hardware and software. Stack is always a suggestion, never a rule.
Ship by Midnight
Constraints unlock creativity. A hard deadline forces you to scope down, focus, and ship something real.
Learning Sticks When You Build
You will remember what you built at 2 AM far longer than any tutorial you watched on 1.5x speed.
“The project you shipped at SHN will teach you more than the course you almost finished.”
— TinkerHub Foundation
The Process
How It Works
Register Free
Sign up via the hub.app link. Free, open to all students and hobbyists. No experience required.
Build All Night
Hack on a project in the suggested stack (or your own). Push your working code to GitHub by midnight.
Win Offline
Top builders from the 5 online sprints get invited to the 24-hour finale at TinkerSpace Kochi.
5 online sprints · 1 grand finale · 0 gatekeeping
Register for the Next NightYour Path to the Finale
Build. Ship.
Get Invited.
There is no jury during the hack night. Just build something real, push it to GitHub, and let your project speak for itself.
The Invitation
You + your whole team gets the invite
If your project gets selected, every member of your team receives an invitation to the 24-hour physical hackathon at TinkerSpace Kochi.
Start BuildingWinners get the full TinkerHub pack
T-shirt, sticker set, and surprise merch. Shipped to your door.
Step 01
Register & Attend
Show up on Saturday at 6 PM IST — online, no travel needed.
Step 02
Build Solo or with One Partner
Max 2 per team. Any language, framework, hardware, or API. The stack suggestion is a starting point, not a rule.
Step 03
Get Invited to the Finale
Top teams from the 5 online sprints get a direct invitation to the 24-hour offline hackathon at TinkerSpace Kochi.
Season 02 · 2026
Upcoming
Hack Nights
5 online sprints, every second Saturday. Join any single night — no need to attend all 5.
Grand Finale — Invite Only
24-hour Hackathon · TinkerSpace Kochi
Top teams from any of the 5 nights get invited — attend even one to qualify
The Agentic Web
AI agents don't just answer questions — they take actions, call APIs, browse the web, and chain decisions together. This hack night is about building something that acts on your behalf: a research agent, a coding assistant, a task automator.
Mentors: Nithish Raj, Sherin Thomas
Creative Coding
Code as a medium for art. Creative coding is about making things that are beautiful, strange, or surprising — generative patterns, interactive visuals, data art, audio visualizers. No design experience needed. Just curiosity.
Mentors: Amal Krishnan
Hardware Sync
Make the physical world talk to the digital one. This hack night is about building hardware-software systems — sensors that post data to the web, apps that control physical devices, or IoT dashboards that visualize real-world readings.
Mentors: Bibin Wilson, Asha Mol
AI at the Edge
Run ML models directly on devices — no cloud, no latency, no privacy concerns. Edge AI is exploding: face detection on a Pi, wake word detection on a microcontroller, image classification on a phone. This hack night explores that frontier.
Mentors: Jithin George
The Open Source Sprint
Open source is how most of the internet runs. This hack night is about giving back — find a project you use, find an issue, and fix it. Or start something new and make it open from day one. Stack is completely open.
Mentors: Kailash Nadh, Rijul Singh
What Happens Next
After You
Register
Confirmation email
You'll get a confirmation from hub.tinkerhub.org. Check spam if not seen within 5 minutes.
Discord invite + theme preview
Join the SHN Discord. The Saturday theme is announced 24 hours in advance.
Theme drops. Hacking starts.
Full challenge brief goes live. Mentors come online. Build — no check-ins, no progress reports.
Push and submit
Push to a public GitHub repo and submit via hub.app. A working prototype is enough.
Projects reviewed
The TinkerHub team reviews all submissions. Standout projects featured in Discord and the archive.
Finale invitations sent
Top teams receive direct invitations to the 24-hour offline hackathon at TinkerSpace Kochi.
The Offline Finale
TinkerSpace
Kochi
TinkerHub Foundation's physical maker lab. Where hardware meets software. Where ideas become prototypes overnight.
The SHN finale is a 24-hour hackathon held at TinkerSpace — selected teams arrive in the evening, hack through the night, and present in the morning. Intense. Unforgettable. The best projects come out of it.
What's Covered for Selected Teams
Finale Schedule
Location
TinkerSpace, Kochi, Kerala, India
~30 min from Kochi Central Railway Station
At TinkerSpace
Season 01 · 2025
What Was
Built
Local-First Apps
CRDTs, SQLite, PGlite
Best Project
OfflineNotes
by Akhil R
Build Your CLI
Node.js, Python, Go
Best Project
gitmind
by Sara T
Browser Extensions
Web Extensions API, JavaScript
Best Project
FocusLens
by Manu S
Hall of Fame
What Gets
Built
Real projects shipped by real builders. Hover to explore.
By The Numbers
Builders Speak
The Vibe
“
I built my first deployed app in 6 hours. The vibe is unmatched.
— Abhijith
“
TinkerSpace Kochi felt like a second home during the finale.
— Sara
“
SHN pushed me to stop procrastinating and actually ship.
— Rohan
Join the Network
2,400+
Builders.
Zero gatekeeping.
Real-time help, build logs, and event announcements. Jump in, ask questions, show your work.
Common Questions
Everything you
need to know
Still have questions? Ask in Discord — someone answers within hours.