Moth Hack 2026
A space where the public and creative technologists can congregate around our new platform Atlas
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Moth Hack Winner: Logan White
Title: Quantum Film
Challenge: Quantum-native 1
Engines used - Tomography Api
Film grain laid by a quantum circuit. A 16-qubit circuit places five crystals on each tile, and because fermions obey Pauli exclusion, the crystals keep their distance. 24,576 shots on Atlas were stacked into a sheet of film at the density of TRI-X, giving grain finer than its crystal count predicts.
Congratulations Logan. Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com
Moth Hack Winner: Tammy
Title: Listening to a proton tunnel
Challenge: Daisy Chain
Engines used - Tessa Image, Quantum Blur, Retrocausal Echo, Quantum Teleblur, QRC MIDI & Qpixl
One proton tunnelling through a double well, passed through a chain of Atlas engines, each given a single job. Together they build the opening, paint the cover, learn the tunnelling rhythm and write the music, then read the result back on real quantum hardware. The outcome is an EP, an interactive experience, a lab and a notebook.
Congratulations Tammy. Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com
Moth Hack Winner: Jo Portus
Title: Quantum Variations
Challenge: Make a VST or AU
Engines used - QRC Train & QRC Generate
A Max for Live device that sends your musical ideas through a quantum reservoir and back. Any MIDI clip in Ableton Live, from a bassline to a drum loop, trains the reservoir, which then writes a new variation into the next empty slot. A single dial sets how far it strays.
Congratulations Jo. Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com
Moth Hack Winner: Endeav
Title: Chrono
Challenge: Daisy chain
Engines used - Quantum Labyrinth, Tessa, Entanglement Shader, Quantum Blur, Quantum Teleblur, Retrocausal Echo & Coin Toss
A quantum organism whose life cycle is computed by a chain of Atlas engines. A quantum measurement writes each specimen’s genome, which grows into a colony seed and then a skin. The skin ages, warps its 3D body and gains an iridescent membrane, which becomes the sound the specimen plays.
Congratulations Endeav. Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com
Moth Hack 2026
Enabling access for anybody to the underlying power of a quantum computer
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Moth Hack Winner: Tina Burton
Title: Quantum fabric maps - Interference-blurred textures for digital materials
Challenge: Three dimensions
Engines used - Quantum Blur
A photograph of a branching tree, shot on expired 35mm film and run through Quantum Blur at a range of settings. The results became texture maps for a quantum velvet and a quantum organza, draped on cube forms in CLO3D.
Congratulations Tina. Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com
Moth Hack Winner: Vedant
Title: Quantum Pac-Man
Challenge: Quantum Game
Engines used - Quantum Labyrinth
A quantum take on a classic arcade game. Each of its 108 rooms is a qubit, and every 6 seconds the maze collapses into a new layout drawn from a measured bitstring. Uneaten pellets stay where corridors still run, and the ghosts re-plan their routes on the spot.
Congratulations Vedant.
Play the game: quantum-pacman-alpha.vercel.…
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Moth Hack Winner: Rand
Title: The Quantum Diary
Challenge: Make it audible
Engines used - Quantum Blur
A diary that reads how you type as well as what you write. It sets your typing rhythm beside the feelings in your words, then turns each entry into a brain map and a song learned from your typing: slow and minor on a sad day, warm piano on a happy one.
Congratulations Rand. Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com/
Moth Hack Winner: wedge
Title: Quantum Sculptor
Challenge: Expert - Quantum-native 1
Engines used - Quantum Blur & Entanglement Shader
A 3D scan of a statue, divided into twelve nations, each one a qubit entangled with its neighbours. Over sixty turns, each nation’s measurement decides whether it attacks, defends or explores, adding or removing cubes. One run, measured on real quantum hardware, was printed at 90 mm.
Congratulations wedge. Start using Atlas Alpha today platform.mothquantum.com/
Moth Hack 2026
Showing the world what quantum technology can do.
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Moth Hack Winner: Vadim Epstein @eps696
Title: Mothion Blur
Challenge: Moving image
Engines used - Quantum Blur & Retrocausal Echo
Mothion Blur blurs video through time instead of space. A 6-qubit circuit spreads each pixel’s brightness across 64 frames, so moving subjects leave echoes before and after they appear. Retrocausal Echo turns the clip’s audio into a matching quantum echo, so sound and picture ghost in sync.
Congratulations Vadim. Click below to start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com/
Moth Hack Winner: Sofya Rakitina
Title: Quantum Blur of a quantum chip
Challenge: One image, one engine
Engine used - Quantum Blur
A qubit map of IBM’s 133-qubit ibm_torino processor, run through the Quantum Blur engine on Atlas Alpha. Blur encodes the whole image as one quantum state, so every pixel interferes with every other. A noisy quantum machine, reprocessed by quantum mechanics.
Congratulations Sofya.
Start using Atlas Alpha today - platform.mothquantum.com/
The Moth Hack 2026 winners.
Across 11 days, users around the world joined our Moth Hack and used Atlas Alpha Platform to create art, games and applications with quantum computing.
Thank you to everyone who entered and to everyone who came through our Soho pop-up.
Access Atlas here - platform.mothquantum.com/
Moth Quantum retweeted
"It would be a great shame if quantum computers were created and only ever used by governments and corporations." - Harry Kumar, @Moth_Quantum
We've set a guest challenge at the Moth Hack: make something that teaches a general audience about quantum computing or quantum mechanics, using one of Moth's Atlas Engines. The winner gets a £150 voucher. Entries are open online until 2 October.







