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by tasha
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 pamela
Last night at the Highgroove Studios office, we held the March edition of Hack Night, our monthly social coding gathering. We focused on starting, polishing, and/or discussing open source projects ranging from the super useful to the super silly (beer is always provided at our hack nights...)
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by cbq
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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