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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!
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 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 treated us to a NES that actually worked, and a hacked cartridge that recreated an art piece called "Super Mario Clouds" by Cory Arcangel.
The frontend developers in the audience were shocked to see Gabe render a smooth, spinning cube in even the oldest of browsers.
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.
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]
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 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.
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.
Should you wear pants today? Find out.
We hosted our very first Key signing Party this round which went off without a problem! We'll definitely do these again!
We're always looking for spaces, so if you've got space for 100+ people and are willing to host, please let us know!
Check out http://hackandtell.org for links, and expect a new hackandtell.org any year now!
2600's conference, Hope X, is this July. Get your tickets while you can!
There is no final thought.
Happy hacking,
Andrew and James
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