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Some thoughts from a non-coder

Dev Camp Day 5

Stringing code while eating boerenkool. You got to appreciate it.

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Good Morning

Dev Camp

It is the morning of the 6th day and there are about 10 hackers from 3 different projects still moving through the project space. They pulled all nighters and have shown us the true-hacker spririt.
Multithreaded Banjo Dinosaur Knitting Adventure…

Dev Camp Day 2

This exquisitely named project is based on the tapisserie de bayeux. This large rectangular carpet told the history of the Battle of Hastings that raged during the 11th century.
Keeping you on the downlow.

Dev Camp Day 3

After 6 posts that were not project centered it might be wise to see how our participants are doing. In this post I will briefly inform you how the day is going and if they encountered any major...
Day 4: Red, Red, Green

ikStaar

See who can look the longest at the other without blinking. Winning means eternal glory, losing everlasting humiliation.
Day 4: Scream by Scream getting closer

ikScream

These guys are straight shooters. Where other concepts transformed, mutated and changed over time, the ideas behind their project more or less stayed the same.
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).
Day 4: Manufacturing Hardware

Multithreaded Banjo Dinosaur Knitting Adventure 2D Extremeeeee

The knitting machine is busy knitting the custom designed sprites created through the ikCam terminal. But the team is not done yet.
Ubi de Feo

Dev Camp Day 5

It feels like introducing Ubi is not necessary. He has been all over the place, but as he is yet to feature in one of our blog posts I will shortly present an insight into our Italian mastermind.
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...
ikScream

Dev Camp Day 2

The new more liberal minded government is chopping the cultural budget by 200 million euros. Labeling the Arts as a leftist hobby they confuse and enrage people working in the cultural sector. On the...
What can we learn?

Dev Camp Day 3

With backgrounds ranging from Portuguese AI-experts to Tennessean hackers the camp promised to be a roller-coaster-ride. And the dazzling displays of limitless ingenuity have yet to disappoint.
Knitting Socks

Dev Camp Day 3

or beanies. or something fallus-like. that you can wear. in slow-motion.
Day 4: Markers, Socks and Arduinos

Blowing your Sock on!

A blowing context that influences the color of a never ending sock. An educational game filled with politics, psychology and philosophical theory.
TTL: aproximately 12 hours

Dev Camp Day 5

We are counting down and our hackers are gearing up for a final sprint.
ikStaar

Dev Camp Day 2

Staring contests are as old as the road to Rome. I heard from reliable sources that before the invention of the ball kids used to stare at each other a lot out of boredom. This project is an updated...
Day 4: Repent because we know everything!

Biting Radios

When J-B, Dana and Nadya explain me their installations they are talking about a dystopic future in which everything we do is recorded and used against you. I am frightened and so should you be.
Day 4: Cigarettes vs. iPhones

Write on Wall.

Cigarettes or telephones what will be the medium that is going to be used for WOW. The team is still struggling to decide if they will change their initial concept.
First Round of Proposals

Dev Camp Day 2

Friday morning 10.30 the first round of project proposals. There were 30 of them ranging from well thought-out to simple brain farts (that still show promise). Let's take a look at some of the more...
Chewing Radio's

Dev Camp Day 2

Chewable Radio's! What's not to understand. Tuning in to your favorite radio-shows while having the airwaves of sounds traveling from your mouth to your ear.
AR.Drone

Dev Camp Day 3

We woke up to see a UFO flying through the Mediamatic Bank. When the initial fear subsided we took a closer look.
Hacker Ethics

Dev Camp Day 5

The boys and girls present at our camp are the natural descendants of the early hackers living in the 1950s and 1960s. Why you ask? Let me quickly explain.
Blowing your sock on!

Dev Camp Day 2

You think you can outblow me? Do you? These sentences will from now on be standard in the Mediamatic vocabulary.
Time Lapse Day 5

This is the last day and part of the last night of the Camp. Seems like that around 2.30 the battery gave out. You got to give it to the participants, because as you can see they were still going...
The Deadline Cometh

Dev Camp Day 5

The last day has begun and things are starting to heat up. With physical mock-ups of the installations scattered through the space it's time to stop building prototypes and start constructing the...

created Caspar Menkman modified Robert Keil

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