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Seb Lee-Delisle: Playing With Code
A nice feature on Seb in the latest issue of Make magazine.
Forty Years of Movie Hacking: Considering the Potential Implications of the Popular Media Representation of Computer Hackers from 1968 to 2008
An in-depth look at the portrayal of hackers on film.
Science Hackday Dublin
Dublin is going to play host to its second Science Hack Day at the start of March. It looks like it’s going to be a fantastic event (again!) but they need sponsors. Do you know of any?
JoshEmerson.co.uk · Blog · Code Club Raspberry Pi Hack Day
Code Club + Raspberry Pi + Hack Day = Awesomeness from Josh
ElectionBot, KineSutra and Other Mad Creations From Science Hack Day | Wired Design | Wired.com
A nice round-up of the most recent Science Hack Day in San Francisco.
TEDxToronto 2012 Talk - Ryan Henson Creighton
And this is why Code Club is such a great initiative.
This is what I like • 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!
Some of these are pure chindogu but others are pure genius.
You, A Rocket Scientist? | Fast Company
Nice! A feature on Ariel and her spacehacking ways.
BBC News - Geek camp comes to Milton Keynes
Watch the video to see Jonty’s rather good tour of EMF.
Science Hack Day Eindhoven 2012 winners compilation on Vimeo
Some of these hacks created at the Science Hack Day in Eindhoven are seriously nuts. That’s “nuts” as in “brilliant”.
Brighton Mini Maker Faire is Back – and We Need YOU! | Brighton Mini Maker Faire
Brighton’s Mini Maker Faire (which was fantastic last year) will take place the day after dConstruct and this time, they’ve got a lot more space. Want to get involved? Get involved!
Descriptive Camera
Oh, this is just wonderful: a camera that outputs a text description instead of an image (complete with instructions on how to build one yourself). I love it!
Climbing a Shard of Glass | Place Hacking
Sneaking in to climb the Shard at night.
What Would Molydeux? • Articles • Eurogamer.net
A blow-by-blow account of last weekend’s MolyJam in Brighton.
littleBits
This is such a brilliant and empowering idea: an open-source object-oriented to electronics, like LEGO bricks for circuit-building.
Get Excited and Make Things with Science on Huffduffer
The audio from the panel I did at South by Southwest with Ariel and Matt all about science hacking.
Get Excited and Make Things with Science // Speaker Deck
The slides from the South by Southwest panel I was on with Ariel and Matt. It was lots of fun.
Prometheus Fusion Perfection
Now this is what I call science hacking: building an open source fusion reactor.
Science!
Camping at Kiwifoo | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The Kiwi Foo Space Program (a weather balloon with an Android device attached) captured some beautiful images.
BLDGBLOG: Object Cancers
You think that Digital Rights Management is bad? What about Physible Rights Management?
Science Hack Day Chicago
What a fantastic location for a Science Hack Day: the Adler planetarium in Chicago! Get there if you can.
Science Hackday Dublin | Yay! Science
Dublin is hosting a Science Hack Day on the weekend of March 3rd-4th. Put your name down now.
Lego Man in Space | Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad
They did it. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad fulfilled that age-old dream: to put a Lego man into space. They have done Canada—and the world—proud.
MAKE ROOM NOW
Matt is offering up his space in central Brighton every Wednesday afternoon for free-for-all Arduino tinkering. I should try to get over there.
BBC News - Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
The network will interpret SOPA as damage and route around it …with SCIENCE!
daniel sinker • Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of “show your work”
A look back at some of the best code for journalism over the past year.
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz - tech - 27 December 2011 - New Scientist
Before there was phone phreaking there was …radio interception hacking?
A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi’s wireless telegraph
3D Printing, Teleporters and Wishes - Anil Dash
Anil shares his thoughts on where there’s room for improvement in 3D printing, or as he calls it, teleporting.
Silicon Valley Buzz - Science for the everyday man - YouTube
Ariel is interviewed by Seth Shostak. Science! Science! Science!
Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter
This looks truly wonderful: like a hardware version of “if this, then that.”
russell davies: again with the post digital
In a single post, Russell Davies manages to rehabilitate the term “post digital.” And he paints a vivid picture of where our “Geocities of things” is heading.
The Great Universe of Data on Vimeo
One of the opening lightning talks at Science Hack Day in San Francisco by Sean Herron of NASA.
Russell M Davies: Make things, not media platforms (Wired UK)
A rallying cry from Russell, urging us not to rely too much on the intangible.
OSCON 2011, Ariel Waldman, “Hacking Space Exploration” - YouTube
Ariel’s inspiring keynote from OSCON in Portland, featuring two very exciting Science Hack Day announcements at the end.
Lava Lamp Installation on Vimeo
Brighton hacker Jason Hotchkiss demos his music-generating lava lamps in this promo video for the Brighton Maker Faire taking place the day after dConstruct.
Calling all UK Makers to Brighton’s First Mini Maker Faire | Brighton Mini Maker Faire
Hardware hackers, you’ve got until June 30th to submit something for Maker Faire in Brighton this September (the day after dConstruct).
Dead Drops ‘How to’ - NYC on Vimeo
I should get out there and make a few drops in Brighton.
SYMBIOTIC HOUSEHOLDS on Vimeo
Design fictional biohacking.
The Blast Shack
Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the unintended consequences of cypherpunk.
Culture Hack Day
There's going to be a Culture Hack Day in January, the weekend before History Hack Day. They're like buses; you wait for ages for one to come along and then two show up at once.
Hack me with science: a look back at Science Hack Day SF · YDN Blog
An absolutely fantastic write-up of Science Hack Day San Francisco ...as seen through the lens of Stephen Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From.
Open Data for the Arts – Human Scale Data and Synecdoche – Blog – BERG
An inspiring presentation by Tom Armitage on the value of open data.
Welcome | sugru | Hack Things Better
A versatile material to help you fix things.
10K Apart | Inspire the web with just 10K.
I'll be sitting in judgement on the entries to this neat competition which harks back to the good ol' days of 5k.org.
Emily Toop » BuildBrighton needs your help
Live in Brighton? Like hardware hacking? Build Brighton needs your input.
haroon baig | projects | twitwee clock
A cute hardware hack: send a tweet with the word TwitweeClock, the hashtag #TwitweeClock, or the username @TwitweeClock, and this cuckoo clock will, well, cuckoo.
Psychic Origami » Blog Archive » A Huffduffer Widget
John Montgomery has created an embeddable Huffduffer widget that you can add to your own site with one line of JavaScript. Hurrah! ...I really need to get 'round to documenting the (somewhat primitive) Huffduffer API.
openhacklondon | Open Hack 2009: London
The next Yahoo hackday will be on May 9th and 10th in Covent Garden. I've registered my interest. You should too.
tomtaylor.co.uk : projects : microprinter
The details of Tom's hardware hack at PaperCamp: an old-school printer receipt printer hooked up via arduino.
Hack Day – Group at Last.fm
The first ever Last.fm hack day is taking place in London on December 14th. I'll be there.
Ztamp:s - RFID stamps that makes your objects come alive - Violet •• Let All Things Be Connected
Reading through some of the things that peope have made with these RFID tags is making me itchy to hack something tangible.
Show Us a Better Way
Tell the UK government what you'd build with public information and they could help fund your idea. Time to put your hacking hat on.
Delighting with Data » tomtaylor.co.uk
Notes and slides from Tom Taylor's talk at Oxford Geek Night 7. It's a great collection of things that talk (or at least Twitter): Tower Bridge, asteroids, plants...
Scripting Enabled
Christian is using the prize money he won at Mashed to put on an event in London in September devoted to "ethical hacking": creating mashups to make social networks more accessible.
Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
Check out this cool arduino project: input from the moisture level of a plant sends an SMS to Twitter so you know it needs to be watered.
Let’s Jailbreak the iPod touch 1.1.2 with OS X « RupertGee’s iBlog
A step-by-step guide to hacking your iPod Touch even if you've already upgraded to the new firmware.
iPhone sim free
Looks like the iPhone has been unlocked. Jesus phones want to be free.
Index of /twitapi
Aral just posted his extensions to the Twitter API.
YUI’s Matt Sweeney and Hands-on YUI Workshops at Yahoo! Developer Day/Hack Day September 29-30 in Sunnyvale » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Yahoo is opening up Hack Day to the masses. If you're anywhere near Sunnyvale on September 29th, this should be fun.