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by tasha

Hack Night got hacked

Published August 27, 2012 in Hack Night Community

Hacking the door remote

Each month, we open our doors for a Hack Night, inviting others to join us as we experiment with and work on various technologies.

For the August Hack Night, we sharpened our focus and added a little more structure. For the first time, we posed a challenge to those attending: Could they hack our RFID door reader to allow our chat robot to open the front door of our office?

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by cbq

Hack Night at Highgroove

Published January 26, 2012 in Hack Night

Hack Night! Twitter bots, io language, iPad apps, gaming in c#....

Highgroove hosted our monthly Hack Night, and with 20 attendees, this was our largest yet.

To program a computer in a clever, virtuosic, and wizardly manner. Ordinary computer jockeys merely write programs; hacking is the domain of digital poets. Hacking is a subtle and arguably mystical art, equal parts wit and technical ability, that is rarely appreciated by non-hackers. See hacker. -- Urban Dictionary: hack

Hack Nights are a chance for Highgroovers to simply "hack" which means: to experiment, learn, and play with technologies we might not get to during our day-to-day. So, what did we hack on?

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