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Hack and Tell - Round 28

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Round 28: Jeepy Gee

Hello Hackers-

Thanks to Meetup for hosting us! As always Meetup is a great place to hold, well, Meetups, and Tuesday night was no exception! They're hiring!

Projects Presented (in random-pseudo order[0])

Chris Vickery

Professor Vickery showed off his meticulously soldered Enigma machine which for some reason spits out stock predictions. You should buy AMZN, but only in Philadelphia, when the sun rises from the west. [It was totally coincidence that we had two cipher machine presentations, but what a fantastic coincidence! -- Ed]

Aditya Mukerjee and Greg Tobkin

Aditya and Greg showed us how they cracked the Geheimschreiber machine, which was the successor to the Enigma. [The Bill Gates of the day said something like "5 wheels should be enough for anyone." -- Ed]

Jonathan Dahan

Jonathan treated us to a NES that actually worked, and a hacked cartridge that recreated an art piece called "Super Mario Clouds" by Cory Arcangel.

Gabe Ghearing

The frontend developers in the audience were shocked to see Gabe render a smooth, spinning cube in even the oldest of browsers.

Rob Spectre

Rob fascinated us with a half terminal of switches to ffmpeg, and the fact that he uses iTunes in a virtual machine on his Linux box to listen to music. [I said, "whhhaaaaaaa?" He said, "Smart playlists, man" -- Ed]

But really, he showed us how he built a live streaming rig for broadcasting blizzards.

Omar Rizwan

Cruncher is a calculating notepad. Think of it as a better desktop calculator which allows you to label everything. [That's a horrible explanation, just go check it out -- Ed]

Harold Cooper

We were treated to a functional explanation and implementation of Bezier curves, through a demonstration of their construction, in a Haskell GUI program. [I can't make this stuff up -- Ed]

David Branner

David showed off his falsetto while filling us in on his hackery of Google Voice's speech recognition. Turns out, it makes a lot of mistakes.

Grant Kot

John Williams' jaw dropped when Grant played "The Imperial March" on a digital instrument he invented for mobile devices. Grant showed the Grantophone off once before, but it keeps getting better and better.

Jennifer Refat

Should you wear pants today? Find out.

Also at this Hack and Tell...

We hosted our very first Key signing Party this round which went off without a problem! We'll definitely do these again!

Announcements and Things to Watch out for...

Round 29 - Coming Soon to a living room near you!

We're always looking for spaces, so if you've got space for 100+ people and are willing to host, please let us know!

Traveling? Check out Hack and Tell in other cities

Check out http://hackandtell.org for links, and expect a new hackandtell.org any year now!

Get tickets to Hope X while you can...

2600's conference, Hope X, is this July. Get your tickets while you can!

Final thought...

There is no final thought.

Happy hacking,

Andrew and James

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