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Hackfest 10101 Mortem

February 9th, 2006 by graham

9 Feb 2006: Kicking Ass and Taking Notes

Earlier today Graham attended the GVU Brownbag welcoming the newly minted, formerly GSU – Gatech BrainLab. They work with developing invasive and noninvasive brain interfaces for control of typing, surfing the web, etc.

Joel came! He quit his job touching up photos and maps.
He has 2 big projects and one small one.
1. Narration of an epic story through illustration.
2. Digital audio instrument: keyboard + trackpad with deformable grid
that allows you to navigate through harmony and scale space.
e. Tattoo artistry for his friends.
3. Children’s book as studies for number 1.

Graham and Joel went to dorkbot-atl to see Kevin and Steve talk.
The presentations were on video sculpture and gamelan-western hybrid music.

Vinny and Grant discussed Web 2.0 business models.
References: Gallery Nucleus, Kaneda, Video.Google, Homestar Runner, Achewood.
Zero cost distribution for creative works (other than the work creating them).
Grant wants to develop more of his creative side-projects.

Luke got published on Digg and Engadget. He hacked his phone to run Linux + apps.
This week he is learning a little about eclipse, eclipse plugins, rhino, and the linux usbnet module.
Currently in Baton Rouge on assignment.

Luke and I will be having a crawdad boil in the future. You will be invited.

Ben has started work for Bill. He’s working on a secret feature for Messenger.
"The weather is lovely because the jet stream just shifted
But it will be gone in a week and then back to the doldrums."

Music: an eclectic mix of alt-country, including Bright Eyes, courtesy of Octane.

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Hackfest 10100 Mortem

February 7th, 2006 by graham

2 Feb 2006 – Hackfest 10100

Since Last Week:
+Vinny
-Got basic SchemePong working with user input.
+Graham
-Used Event class to synchronize several ChucK melodies.
+Luke
-Learning fuse, a library for user space filesystems. (in anticipation of the Revisionist fs)
+Matt
-Setting up an LDAP for directory service.

This Week:
+Vinny
-Work on UI stuff, and scripting it with scheme, generating it with XUL.
+Matt
Working on improving backups with AMANDA.
+Luke
-Going to play with Opie, the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment.
+Graham
-Getting OSC-pd to talk to ChucK.
-Fix the SWIMM UI.

Reality:
+Vinny
played with http://schemeway.sourceforge.net/
+Graham
Not much luck getting OSC working in pd on win32. Vinny suggested using JavaOSC.

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Hackfest 10101

February 6th, 2006 by graham

what:

Come join us at Octane!

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dorkbot-atl 2

February 6th, 2006 by graham

what:

1) The next dorkbot-atl meeting will take place on Thursday, February
9th at 7 p.m. in the Couch Building on the Georgia Tech campus, so
mark your calendars! Kevin Quennesson from the GVU center at Georgia
Tech will present his interactive video work "conscious=camera," and
Emory composition professor Steve Everett will discuss his multimedia
shadow play "KAM: Ki Ageng Mangir."

Full information about the presenters and presentations is at
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/02092006/

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Living Game Worlds 2

February 2nd, 2006 by ynniv

what:

The first LGW was held at the Biltmore last year. This year, there are more presenters, the same hash of Georiga Tech professors, and of course, Will Wright. Come see what Will has done since last year!

Registration is free:

http://gameworlds.gatech.edu/

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Hackfest 10011 Mortem

January 26th, 2006 by graham

26 January 2006

What we did tonight:
Grant – reviewed EvWar code – Java vs. ObjC
Vinny – *wink* "Made funny faces."
Luke – Working with Sisc. Brainstormed ideas for user space filesystems. Revisionist File System, or SchemeFS.
Stephen – Learned ChucK.
Mike – Worked on a paper.
Graham – Demo’ed ChucK and experimented.

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Hackfest 10010 Mortem

January 19th, 2006 by graham

Hackfest 10010: January 19, 2006
(no notes last week, but there was a meeting)

Since Last Time:
-Vinny:
Soldered a serial port to WRT54g.
Using PyOgre to enable texture manager commands.
Designed a game involving claiming territory in schools (w/ Graham).
-Luke
Modified Linux Kernel to support kb and mouse – media keys were unrecognized (USB human interface system). Translated them into the valid keyspace, produced unique events, then added entries to custom xmodmap.
Trying to use MAME the emulator with MythTV, modified it to work. MythTV had a bad version check of MAME that silently failed. Luke added a better check.
Worked on using Hough transform to crop family photos, in Python. Might write a script in GIMP (script-foo).
-Graham
Fixed glitches in Music Editor segmentation / rendering. Refactored, wrote processes to scramble, reverse, and speed up segmented songs.
Added SWIMM to source control on atlhack.
Finished character-granularity demo of clocks code.
Imposed temporary nethack cessation.
-Grant
Made fuzzy Spoontease.
MSN Virtual Earth API for recovering coordinates of historical photos. 4d-cities demo
Want to develop semantic descriptions of city buildings to improve search, and to create model of city from images.

This Week Plans:
-Vinny
Scheme pong, in Scheme using Sisc.
-Luke
Goal: to extend Eclipse with Sisc. Going to learn Sisc today.
-Graham
Build an extraction queue for SWIMM.
-Grant
Evolutionary War needs an binary for Intel (v1.2), and remove shareware nag.

This Week Reality:
Geeks on soapboxes. Listen to the podcast (all "podcasts").

Released in 2005:
nethack-bot-framework, gmaps schools

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Hackfest 10000 Mortem

December 16th, 2005 by

Since last week:

Vinny:

Managed to get PyOgre to compile on the Mac.

One downside though: it doesn’t fully work with OpenSDL

PyOgre runs and a has started to tie into Commotion.
Scenes in Ogre can be created through PyOgre in Commotion.

Graham:

Finals… *sigh*

Luke:

Linux on kitchen sink.

Loaded up OpenWRT onto my Linksys WRT54G.
Loaded up Linux onto my Treo 650.

Did some MythTV work especially to fix my settings that allow me to have the MythTV box automagically shutdown when idle and startup when it needs to record.

Tonight:

Vinny:

Messed with commotion.
Downloaded a version of emacs thats not from the 70’s.
Spent some time on real-time document collaboration.

Real-time in this case means 2+ people are editing at the same time and all other editors see their changes in real time.
SubEthaEdit is an excellent example of this principle.
DocSynch markets itself as being exactly what Vinny wanted, but turned out that almost everything is still "planned".
Considering JEdit as a potential base to implement a cross-platform version. Hopefully the protocol will be generic enough that others will implement it for other editors (emacs, eclipse, etc…).
BEEP for Java would be great for this if Vinny can find a open version that supports peer features.

Graham:

Played with Emacs syntax tables and got the syntax system to tell
him what was punctuation.
Contimplating the next steps for his prototype.
Potential next step: rewrite the code to do character level timing so that its easy to manage timing across edits. And, crack the problem of serializing the data across sessions.

Luke:

Did some reading of arm/linux documents and source code.
Thought about trust systems and personal data. Can one create services in which the user doesn’t need to trust you?
Discussed rich instant messanger services.

I’ll linkify things later.

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