Hackmeetup, bigger and bolder
Yesterday’s hackmeetup was definitely a success. As Olle has already written, we had a new record in the number of people showing up. It was also the second time we had a theme, this time around hardware and electronics. I didn’t personally bring any project, but I had a lot of fun with Olle’s arduino kit.
The real theme for the evening for me, however, was derailment. Like how Olle’s and my project to get the arduino to play music got derailed when we obsessed around getting the correct notes for the Bubble Bobble theme tune and started googling for the correct frequency for a b (or h) below the standard c, and then tried to figure out how to convert that into a number we could use to send to the arduino. (It turned out that the conversion was really simple if you just knew how.)
Or when I was just going to quickly show off what Processing looked like and loaded a silly little project that I built out of boredom last week when I was ill. It’s a version of pong that takes the built in webcamera on my MacBook as input and bounces the ball against anything dark in the picture. Luckily the wall behind us was light enough to be a playing field and we ended up in a long deathmatch between my (currently a bit too big) hair and mickeprag’s sweater.
So for me the evening included a whole lot of silliness and not a lot of usefulness. Just the way it’s supposed to be.
