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Hackaway 2009 Winners Announced!! (Update – Packages Shipped!)
*Update In Comments"
Using my trusty random number generators, I have randomly selected the winners of each category. No one was excluded and everyone had an equal chance to win. Congratulations to all winners, and all contestants! I think we had a great Hackaway! Emails will go out to all contestants shortly. The winners are:
- Zipit Z2 w/crank - Kerry Snyder
- Fujitsu Touchpad Serial Terminal - Paul Masterson
- PS2 "Robot" - Josh Robin
- Jornada 540 - John Wood
- girltech im-me - Guillermo Asin
- Trivial Pursuit digital - Steve Anderson
- digital microscope - Max Thrun
- 20q nn game - Hunter Fuller (awesome name did not influence selection btw)
- usb stuff - Alpha Mule
December 4th, 2009 - 18:59
Congrats to the winners!
Have fun and happy hacking!
December 4th, 2009 - 19:20
Alright, freebie friday. Now i have to figure out what to do with my woot.
December 4th, 2009 - 19:23
So.. i guess i will have to buy myself a zipt z2.
Hunter, what are your thoughts on the Wikireader? Im willing to buy one for me.
December 4th, 2009 - 21:37
Aww dang but it was a cool contest
December 5th, 2009 - 00:07
I was wondering which of us would quip about the name thing first.
December 7th, 2009 - 08:20
Congrats to all you winners hope you enjoy your prizes
December 7th, 2009 - 12:41
Hey Everyone! All the packages for Hackaway 2009 have shipped out! Thanks for all the support and well wishes. I encourage everybody to add me on facebook/linkedin/myspace etc etc and continue the spirit of community we’ve got going. I’m also very excited at the hacking projects coming up!
December 7th, 2009 - 12:42
Hey Anok,
The wikireader looks interesting, but lacks any communications medium other than usb. I’d be curious to hear about it if you end up picking one up. The format is open spec, so you should be able to easily make your own entries or port other wikis to the device. Good Luck!
December 7th, 2009 - 18:39
so have u picked up the Zone GAMEing system At Cvs
yet what have u thought about it
December 7th, 2009 - 23:38
Didn’t see one at my local CVS, did see a “family gaming system” but didn’t look as appealing. I’ll keep my eye out.
December 8th, 2009 - 12:08
Hey Hunter
Do you have a facebook group? If so whats the URL
-Adam
December 8th, 2009 - 13:00
Hey Adam,
No group. I’m on facebook (www.facebook.com/huntergdavis), but do not have a “group” or app or anything like that. You (or anyone else on the site) is welcome to add me.
December 11th, 2009 - 06:42
A++++++ Super Fast Shipping. Would accept free gadgets again in the future.
December 11th, 2009 - 09:01
Hahhaha lol. Glad to hear you got it in ok. I still have 2 overseas packages left to ship out tomorrow, then everyone should have their packages within a week.
December 23rd, 2009 - 05:15
Hi there,
I finally got the IM-Me today. I’ll tell you if I can make anything interesting with it, ASAP, as I’m now into another project (which in fact is my “Undergraduate Thesis Project”).
So, thanks a lot, Hunter.
December 23rd, 2009 - 13:07
Hey Guillermo,
Glad to hear that it got to Spain before the holiday season ramped up! Good luck on your thesis project! Hopefully the IM-ME will be of some use to you. Happy Hacking Holidays!
January 13th, 2010 - 16:31
Seems that I arrived late for the hackaway, congratulations to the winners. What I really wanted is your zipit z2 linux image. I download one from hunterdavis.com/zipit.tgz but it seems lacking a lot of packages, no dpkg so I’ll have to manually install dpkg.deb
just to get things started
January 13th, 2010 - 17:35
Hey Esteban,
You can get the newest debian images from the sourceforge page, they include apt-get and dpkg. The one I posted is based on the older bitbaked userland. Good luck!
January 14th, 2010 - 10:58
Sorry for my last message lack of background.
I’ve been playing with the debian image for a while and you already gave me some precious advice (http://hunterdavis.com/archives/125)
What I really mean is, is it possible to mix binaries from the bitbacked userland and the debian image? Can I add working bitbake userland’s binaries to the debian image, for example hwclock isn’t working in debian but do work in bitbake.
Also, what about the games included in your image, prboom and mario just to name the ones I’ve checked, is there any special requirement to run them? They just hang the zipit, or maybe I didn’t wait long enough. Can they also run on the debian image?
In zipit’s debian remote access with ssh and vnc is great but bash and X server are not a good enough user interface given the limited keyboard and small display.
What the zipit OS is lacking is a customized X server with just a set of applications (with big buttons and keyboard shortcuts access) like: battery status, wireless network finder (like zipit’s original software), clock, calendar, address/phone/email book, notepad, email, browser, personal finance, mp3 player, image viewer, video player, games.
All these apps are already written what I need is to put them together in a image and maybe customize their GUIs. Do I need to set up a whole bitbake dev environment to accomplish it? Is it possible to get a copy of your dev env?
Did you base your dev env on this openzipit.org/Z2Develop/ ?
January 14th, 2010 - 15:10
Hey Esteban,
Now I gotcha.
1. Yes, you should be able to mix bitbaked binaries with the debian kernel without too much issue. You’ll just need to make sure the libraries required for the bitbake are also installed on the debian system (like sdl, sdl-image, alsa etc)
2. I didn’t test all the games… so no guarantees they run at all
You should be able to install prboom from apt-get without issue, not sure about the mario one.
3. I use the standard dev environment availabe at the sourceforge page (quite similar to the openzipit one). You should be able to accomplish your goals however by just installing the starndard applications on the debian image and customizing your window manager theme settings. For instance I use icewm, with a double bottom bar that auto-hides. I also have cpu and memory graphs on the bottom bar, as well as the start menu, battery indicator (not accurate), etc. You can probably do it all better using conky and a well crafted .conkyrc file. That would also take less memory. I think it should be doable though without too much trouble,
Good Luck!
March 27th, 2010 - 04:41
Congradulations!