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Hacking the party
At Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 6
Mediamatic organized a get together for their clients and network. After an intense week, it's party night. The Surinamese food has run out but the champagne is still flowing and, under the umbrellas...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Workshop Generating VGA Signals
13Nov 2009- Now in amazing 3-bit color!13Nov 2009By using the very simple and cheap PIC Microchip micro-controller it's possible to generate signals. With these signals you can display all kinds of pixel patterns on any VGA monitor or beamer.
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Hackercamp Manifesto
At Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009
Top tips behind a 5-day miracle in the hackers' own words
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It's (nearly) a Network Knockout!
At Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009
Most PICNICkers never did get to test how well they really know who is in their PICNIC network. We're still not sure whether the more promiscuous virtual networkers could ever know enough about their...
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The best idea, stupid
Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 1
9.30am and Hackerscamp 2009 gets underway as 20 or so hackercampers new and old congregate at the Mediamatic HQ. Some have cycled leisurely from home, others, like the three jetlagged MIT guys, are...
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ik-a-sketch
At Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 6
The art of collaborative drawing
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Very very nearly there
At Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 6
Inquisitive PICNIC early birds trickle into the Gashouder as the teams tweak and tidy their set ups. It's tight but the show will be on the road just in time for the onslaught of visitors expected...
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Minutes before midnight
At Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 5
Over the past five long days the hackers have clocked up around 75 hours of hacking. With the clock ticking to the midnight deadline how are the teams bearing up, mentally and physically? See how...
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RFID Hacker Camp / Mediamatic Camp Site
Hacking the PICNIC website Lab
25Sep 2009Mediamatic will host a one-day Hacking the PICNIC website Lab during PICNIC. In the morning we will explain how the Social RFID interactive installations at PICNIC exchange information with www.
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A home for gnomes
Pervasive gnoming hits Hacker Camp 2009
What is it that makes the common garden gnome the stickiest RFID idea of the year? No matter how much hilarity or derision they provoke, the gnomes just won't go home.
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Been there, got the techie T-shirt
Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009
Hacker (dress) code update
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Hackers Camp Day 8
Today is the last day of Picnic. Willem Velthoven, director of Mediamatic Lab challenged Monique van Dusseldorp, one of the organizers of Picnic, for a run with the exciting ikRun installation .
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Interactive installation Mark Wubben, Eelco Wagenaar 1 Jan 2009
ikSpin
Hot targets and RFID frisbees
Two teams both have a frisbee with a built-in RFID chip. They play in a field with three goals featuring RFID readers. The goals randomly light up (become 'hot'). When a goal is 'hot', it becomes a...
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Breaking The Frame
3D group photo
Form a group, use your ikTags and break the 2D frame to create a 3D experience. Once the installation is activated, an array of (10, 14, 18?) cameras will shut at the same time, capturing the group...
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Getting hardcore
Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 3
Temperatures are dropping, the sound system's rocking and the beer fridge is emptying. It's going NOCTURNAL!
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Overview of the projects Hacker Camp - Day 3
Welcome to the Hacker Camp 2009 Bulletin board
Assembly time!
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#1-800 DIAL NOW!
make your own infomertial
Come and visit our cosy living room from the past to connect with the talent you need today. Record your sales pitch for others to see, sell your idea in a TV-infomertial from the 80s that features...
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ik-a-sketch
worlds largest social sketching tool
The ik-a-sketch is a variant on the well known etch-a-sketch toy. Two knobs are used for making a drawing consisting of a single line. In our version however, the knobs are too far apart for a single...
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ikGnome
Everybody knows gnomes love games
ikGnome is a 'game' where the visitors of PICNIC take pictures of themselves with a Gnome hat on. There are only two hats, a red one and a blue one, which people have to pass along to their friends.
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InterAccess
Toyhack!
22Sep 2009- Dinosaurs, barbies and electronic brain transplants22Sep 2009We'll talk about the reasons for toyhacking, not just the fun stuff, like putting dinosaur heads on Barbies, but also the serious stuff, like making electronic toys accessible to the disabled. You...
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Installations Hacker Camp '09
Social RFID experiments
An overview of all Hacker Camp installations made at PICNIC 2009. The will be presented during Play with your Tag at PICNIC (23 – 25 September 2009).
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Social RFID Hacker Camp '09
All info about the Hacker Camp 2009
The Mediamatic Social RFID Hacker Camp explores various recent technologies like RFID, physical computing and social networking but also looks into aspects of interaction design and interactive...
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de-surveillance
Presented by Showroom MAMA during festival De Wereld van Witte de With 2009
Reclaim your privacy! Disappear from the surveillance camera.
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Mauricio Martins
Coordinator of altLab Lisbon’s Hackerspace, a community-based and community-building collective dedicated to independent research. Maker of Things, Tinkerer, and Open Source advocate. Works mainly as...