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Drake Hacker was our number 2 at the beginning of the season, but then needed 19 stitches in his foot.
Hacking Arts (October 3-5), an annual student-run festival and hackathon hosted at the MIT Media Lab, marked the launch of MIT STARTUP. Hacking Arts features talks by entrepreneurs in the creative industries, tech-enabled live performances and art pieces, and demos by emergent start-ups. This year’s kick-off party at Microsoft’s Nerd Center featured a performance by Grammy-nominated artist Ryan Leslie and an ideation session by Kiran Gandhi, the drummer of MIA.
The following day, participants attended panels on Film, Music, Design, Virtual Reality, Fashion, Gaming, Performing Arts and Visual Arts, hearing from speakers such as Benji Rogers (CEO, Pledgemusic), Kevin Cunningham (Executive Artistic Director, 3-Legged Dog Productions) and Laird Malamed (COO, Oculus VR). Afterward, participants put their ideas into action during the high-voltage hackathon.
The 2014 Hackathon winners were LuxLoop (VHX Prize in Film, TV & VR), Harlequin (Most Creative), CUE (Most Disruptive) and Tomorrow Is Another Day (Best Overall Hack). A common thread among the winning hacks was how technology was used to promote human interaction or create analogue output. LuxLoop and Harlequin both used human motion to affect digital output. CUE, one of the finalists in the Pitch phase of the competition, designed a modular theatrical system consisting of wearable audiovisual hardware and a smartphone app to sequence, control and play user-programmed sound and light effects to enhance public theater. Tomorrow Is Another Day touted the idea “Turn your nothing into something,” as their project used a person’s daily “swipes” on touch-screen devices to transform daily online activities into abstract ink drawings.
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It seems they'll hack anything these days, including the digital image processor in my Canon A710 IS. Thanks to a firmware update I can now save RAW files from my compact (yes RAW, on a compact!) and play Reversi. One of those two things is more useful than the other.
There are loads of other features unleashed too, if you have a Canon A710 or one of the other cameras with the same image processor you can upgrade your firmware too. The firmware update isn't permenant it's stored on the memory card, so if you decide you don't need the extra features simply remove the files.
Main features (from the website):
* Save images in RAW format
* Ability to run "Scripts" to automate the camera
* Live histogram (RGB, blended, luminance and for each RGB channel)
* Zebra mode (blinking highlights and shadows to show over/under exposed areas)
* An "always on" full range Battery indicator
* Ability to turn off automatic dark-frame subtraction
* a higher compression movie mode, and double the maximum video file size
* exposure times as long as 65 seconds
* exposure times as little as 1/10,000 of a second
* ability to use the USB port for a remote trigger input
Additional features:
* a depth-of-field (DOF)-calculator
* File browser
* Text reader
* Calendar
* Some fun tools and games
The full view of my selfmade DVB-T "antenna". It works because it has the correct length for the channels in my area and I'm close enough to the broadcast antenna to not need a further shielding or a second pole for the outer ring of the antenna connector.
Single-track lift bridge over Hackensack River was built by the Lackawanna Railroad in 1959 for Boonton Line service and replaced a 1901 swing bridge. In 1963 Erie Main Line service was rerouted via Upper Hack. Currently used by NJ Transit Main Line service between Suffern and Hoboken via Paterson.
The local corner store had a variety of old tins. Read about old Takua Pa on my blog @ www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2010/11/sri-takua-pa.html.