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:
Hackaway 2009 is over! Thanks Everyone!
Aaand it's over. Just over 48 hours after it began and what a great ride it's been. What a response! The winners have already entered, they just don't know who they are!!
Hackaway 2009 – The great hack giveaway has begun!
I have a very ominous looking stack of upcoming hacking projects. I also have a very lonely looking stack of already hacked projects, extra consoles, spare parts etc. To clear up space for the new hacks, I'm giving away 9 previous hacks. Read on for how to enter.
New Publication
My former graduate research has been collected and published in a book about grid computing. You can buy it on amazon here.
Wallclock 2.0
After a power out blanked my wallclock's memory, I was not eager to go searching through ten year old websites looking for a new terminal emulator. Luckily I found a ten year old NES emulator that loads fine! Behold wallclock 2.0, NES edition! Also be sure to peep the ancient medical tablet that is pulling duty as my new serial terminal. Fun!
My new wallclock at work ;)
10 year old HP Jornada Windows CE 3.0 device - 15$
Serial extension cable - 1$
Shell script to display network and system statistics - 0$
Using Linux - Priceless.
Calorie Counter for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS
Ok,
So having lost 30lbs since I wrote the python calorie counter, I'm a big proponent of counting calories. It WORKS. Not only that it's easy, and it appeals to the chewy mathematics center of my brain. All is well and good, and I've got a nice phone that supports python scripts so I'm set. There are some instances though, where a phone is just too much bulk to carry around and I really just need something smaller.
As luck would have it, I came across a game boy micro.
This little devil is TINY, and fits right in a shirt pocket no troubles. Plus you can get one for 30$ used at gamestop, bonus! However there was one tiny snag, there's no python interpreter for GBA!
So I wrote a version of the calorie counter application for the game boy advance. It uses the savegame sram to store your current calories and calorie goal. It'll work in any gba emulator, flash cart, or the nintendo ds gba slot. Even better, most flash carts allow you to use it for your startup game so the time to start is around 2-4 seconds. Very reasonable! Anyway, it's pretty simple stuff and gplv3 so feel free to give it a try or even modify it. Note, you'll need the excellent HAM gba library to recompile.
You can download it here: GBA Calorie Counter
Halloween 2008 – King Me
Ok so here's a hilarious photo from Halloween 2008. If you like it as much as I did, feel free to buy a mug at my cafepress store. I make no profit from anything sold, just the thought of that photo being out there is hilarity itself. King Me!
The Live For Free Philosophy — http://liveforfree.net/
So I've started a new website. Live For Free Originally I had planned for these articles to go into a book, but after 20 or so articles it became clear that the scope of a book is not great enough to encompass all that I have learned, or would like to learn.
Site Upgrades!
So I finally got around to upgrading my site. New features include:
About time right?