Category Archives: Programming

PiPurr – The Remote Cat Interaction Server

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Tris

All the best hacks and open-source projects come about by scratching personal itches. In fact when asked by friends and acquaintances “How do I start with coding – what should I write?“, that is my usual answer – “Find something … Continue reading →

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CantHack presents at Digibury.

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Mex

Thanks to everybody who came to Digibury this week, we had a great time and we hope the people who came enjoyed the session. The slides are available below, as well as the light painting pictures you made! I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Arduino, Events, Hardware, Programming | 3 Comments

hgdc-x 0.5.3

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tris

I know it’s been quite a while since the 0.5.3 release of the hgd server, but I finally got around to completing the latest version of hgdc-x, the cross-platform GUI hgd client. It is compatible with any of the 0.5.x … Continue reading →

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#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 →

Posted in Hardware, Programming, Software, Unix | 4 Comments

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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