March Madness Challenge - FUBARLabs to NYCR

[HlfShell]

What's FUBAR Labs? We're your neighborhood recently-started NJ based
hackerspace. This is a challenge we're giving to all of our members,
and local hackerspaces for a fun productive March... Her'es the note I
sent out to our members:
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I hereby challenge all of you.

The challenge?

One program. Every. Day.

For all of March.

The Language? Any. I don’t care if you use a magnetic needle to flip
bits on a hard drive. The Platform? Everything – hell if you can get
your Dog to say hello world it’ll count.

The rules:
1. You need to write one program, every day. Duh. Any language. You
can not duplicate functionality. This means a Hello World in Java is
fine, but don’t go and make a Hello World in Python afterward.
2. You need to post the code online. If it’s an embedded project, post
a picture/video of it working. Post it online on your hackerspace site
or on a personal blog! Share it with the world.
3. Deadlines for other hackerspaces doesn't matter that much, but try
to post your stuff before midnight to count as "for that day".

That’s it for rules, but… challenge yourself. The “complexity” of
the code is difficult to judge. There is no rule saying you can’t just
be clever with LEDs every day. But do something new, challenge
yourself. There’s no way to regulate this.

Who’s gonna take this on with me?

Let's roll,

Keith Chester
*hlfshell*

[Zach 'Hoeken' Smith]

awesome.  what a great idea.  lets do this!

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[Zach 'Hoeken' Smith]

will you accept models generated with openscad?  http://openscad.org/

if so, i'm really excited.

[HlfShell]

Sorry guys, forgot to link to the NJ hackerspace:

http://www.fubarlabs.com

All code is accepted. So AVR/Arduino code is good, and yes, even
programmable models like OpensCAD is welcome. Remember, the point is
to PUSH yourself.

[Ben Combee]

Yeah, and we gotta blog it all on nycresistor.com.

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[Jonathan Kaczynski]

I'm in.

[HlfShell]

Just a reminder everyone - March Madness will begin on Monday! Get
ready to code and blog! I look forward to reading about your programs
on the NYCResistor blog.

On Feb 17, 6:47 pm, Jonathan Kaczynski <jmk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in.
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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ben Combee <ben.com...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, and we gotta blog it all on nycresistor.com.
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> > Zach 'Hoeken' Smith wrote:
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> > awesome.  what a great idea.  lets do this!
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[HlfShell]

And we're off! March Madness has begun. Hope everyone has fun!

If you want to follow fubarlabs through it, we should start with the
blogging of it tonight.

http://www.fubarlabs.com

Looking forward to seeing what NYCResistor codes up.

[Matt Joyce]

Posted my first code.

On Mar 1, 2010 9:20 AM, "HlfShell" <kche...@gmail.com> wrote:

And we're off! March Madness has begun. Hope everyone has fun!

If you want to follow fubarlabs through it, we should start with the
blogging of it tonight.

http://www.fubarlabs.com

Looking forward to seeing what NYCResistor codes up.

On Feb 27, 8:38 pm, HlfShell <kches...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a reminder everyone - March Madness...

[Alpay Kasal]

where did you post it? i thought folks had to do their own blog post and send a link. I don't think i'll have time to keep up through all of march but i just finished a fancy bit of code to test 24 dell's, had to see if any of them are rebooting on their own after spotting one system with weird drivers doing so.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
blog: http://blog.LitStudios.com
twitter: @alpaykasal

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[Matt Joyce]

I posted to the nycr blog...

On Mar 1, 2010 5:33 PM, "Alpay Kasal" <al...@litstudios.com> wrote:

where did you post it? i thought folks had to do their own blog post and send a link. I don't think i'll have time to keep up through all of march but i just finished a fancy bit of code to test 24 dell's, had to see if any of them are rebooting on their own after spotting one system with weird drivers doing so.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
blog: http://blog.LitStudios.com
twitter: @alpaykasal

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[HlfShell]

It's not to late to send a link to me if you haven't already. Also,
the NYCR blog is also a great place to post. And I know about the time
crunch - I'm working two 12 hour shifts every weekend this month, so
those days will be terribly hard for me. Just do what you can -
remember it's all about personal improvement through coding. Xen like
almost - heh.

So far it's a huge success and we have a bunch of people
participating. I'm excited for this.

On Mar 1, 5:32 pm, "Alpay Kasal" <al...@litstudios.com> wrote:
> where did you post it? i thought folks had to do their own blog post
> and send a link. I don't think i'll have time to keep up through all of
> march but i just finished a fancy bit of code to test 24 dell's, had to
> see if any of them are rebooting on their own after spotting one system
> with weird drivers doing so.
>
> Alpay Kasal
>   Artist/Engineer
>   blog:http://blog.LitStudios.com
>   twitter: @alpaykasal
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:10:44 -0500, Matt Joyce  wrote:
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>          Posted my first code.
>

>        On Mar 1, 2010 9:20 AM, "HlfShell"  wrote:
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> And we're off! March Madness has begun. Hope everyone has fun!
>
>   If you want to follow fubarlabs through it, we should start with the
>   blogging of it tonight.
>
>  http://www.fubarlabs.com
>
>   Looking forward to seeing what NYCResistor codes up.
>

> On Feb 27, 8:38 pm, HlfShell  wrote:

[Zach 'Hoeken' Smith]

Sorry for the late post, but I did one yesterday too: http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/03/02/march-madness-doorknob-scad/

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MakerBot Industries

[raphael]

Craft night IS happening this week!

Just in case you somehow missed it, we've moved. Our new space is at 87
3rd Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217, 4th floor. It's not completely set up yet
but there will be a table or two cleared off, and most of the tools are
unpacked.

Come see the new space!

[HlfShell]

I commented on the blog, but I'll say it again here- I LOVE the idea
of using SCAD for this. I didn't even think of that when I planned
this and now I can't wait to try it out myself in the coming month.

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[raphael]

I don't know why this makes me so happy, but it does:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html

I think there should be more services like this. Who has a Geiger
counter lying around that we can stick to a computer?

[Norman Savitt]

I have 2 of the old style Geiger Counters and a pocket dosimeter that you are welcome to play around with, though the hard part is finding them in my storage space.

Let me know if you are interested and I'll look for them.

Best regards,

Norman Savitt

PS: You still need those shelves I offered to NYC Resistor?

[Ryan Micallef]

Devon.

[Carlos Chiossone]

Hi, everyone.

We are working on training films for a division of the UN. We need to
borrow, preferably a damaged HF portable or mobile rig to have as part of
the set. If anyone can spare a damaged unit for about 2 weeks, please
contact me directly. Why damaged? Because most people don't want to take a
vacation from their working units. The unit will be always with me as I am
directing the films.

If you can spare a HF unit for 2 weeks, please let me know.

Be well,

Carlos Chiossone ( N2CSI )
www.sprout.net
www.photostudio.com

[Justin Kelly]

how small?

[Carlos Chiossone]

Size is not a big issue from a Yaesu 817 to a 897. It just needs to be recognized as an HF portable or mobile rig. Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu, Vertex, etc. The older videos they got a lot of complaints because they faked the gear.

 

Thanks,

Carlos

[Justin Kelly]

only thing that I have that is currently broken is a Heathkit SB101, not exactly the smallest rig ever made.

[Carlos Chiossone]

Thanks Justin. We found 1 897D from a repair place. Now need 2 more similar.

Thanks.

[Tom Heydt-Benjamin]

I SO want to get some audio samples of them if you find them.

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