Category Archives: Programming

#WolfBot

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Mex

I would like to introduce WolfBot, a new IRC bot that moderates a game of Werewolf. Werewolf is a social game in the ilk of Mafia and has become very popular at un-conferences such as BarCamps. There are many rule … Continue reading →

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A brief history of my Zipit Z2

Posted on April 7, 2012 by shaun

For a while now I have been playing with the idea of building my version of the perfect alarm clock. My original ideas involved the Arduino and the Arduino Ethernet Shield. This all changed when I was introduced to the … Continue reading →

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RickRolling The Trolls

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Mex

This post is inspired by a video a friend (Reashlin) sent to me (embedded below). In their company it is policy to lock computers when users are away from them, and if a machine is left unlocked it is customary … Continue reading →

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W^X

Posted on November 8, 2011 by static-void

Today I was reading about self-modifying code. I knew some things already – for example it is used sometimes as ‘camouflage’ by malicious programs to cover their intent, by JIT compilers, and for optimising loop evaluation functions. Suppose you have … Continue reading →

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hgdc-x. A Cross-Platform, Native hgd Client.

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Tris

At Can’t Hack’s recent Medway Hack day, which took place at the Medway Hackspace, I decided to work on a new desktop /GUI client for the hgd music server. The current crop of hgd clients does not so far include … Continue reading →

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Hexy: Binary to Hex Array Converter.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Tris

Just after the second hack night,  Tim was temporarily staying at my house for a while, and one evening just happened to be working on some embedded PIC stuff. He was writing a system to serve an image over a … Continue reading →

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Lazarus Talk at Barcamp Canterbury 1

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Tris

This weekend just gone saw the first Barcamp to occur in my home town of Canterbury. It went incredibly well and was greatly enjoyable. It was my first Barcamp, and I presented one presentation on the open source Lazarus IDE, the slides … Continue reading →

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pwn PWM

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Tim

Not really much of a hack for this hack session, but still a lot of fun – PWM output control in a PIC microcontroller for a configurable H bridge / 3 phase bridge. A High/Low pair of outputs is set … Continue reading →

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Unveiling HGD – The Hackathon Gunther Daemon

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Edd

I hereby introduce HGD – The Hackathon Gunther Daemon Continue reading →

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Run in case of Death

Posted on January 29, 2011 by fish

OK so I figured – I’ve got irssi running in screen on my virtual server, like most good geeks.  What happens if I get hit by a bus/fall down a well/die from a phase-to-phase electrical shock? Assuming that my bank … Continue reading →

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