Hackaway 2010 Winners Announced!
Thanks again everyone for participating this go round. Using my trusty d-10's, I rolled 6 dice per prize and took the resulting number modulo the number of contest entries. As you can only win 1 prize, I felt it would be unfair to do them in numeric order of hacks, so I randomized the mapping of dice rolls to hacks. I hope this provides some fairness to the distribution of prizes. The winners will be receiving an email request for their addresses officially very shortly.... but they are ....
after the jump!
*Update - Packages are shipping out now!
Hackaway 2010 is Over! A Massive Success!
The polls have closed! Hackaway 2010 is officially over, and no entries that come in after now will be counted. The winners have already entered! I had entries from Thailand, Singapore, UK, Germany, Brazil, France, all over USA, Canada, Mexico and Jamaica. Perhaps many more as well! I'll be rolling dice and boxing up the prizes tomorrow. The winners will be randomly chosen based on dice roll! I also want to thank all the people who sent in their personal stories of successful or fun hacks. It's really reaffirming to know how many great folks are all around. A tremendous success!
Hackaway 2010 Announced!
It's been a tremendous 2010 so far, and it's time for another Hackaway! Hackaway 2010 is about to begin. This one will be even bigger and better than Hackaway 2009, and there are some really awesome hacks coming your way. Rules and prizes and a ton of images after the jump!
90′s Tech to The Rescue (network monitor)
Like many of you, I am throttled by the uplink speed of my network. Unfortunately, my upstream router (which also supplies my HDTV channels) is supplied by my ISP, and I do not have root access. The cable company also doesn't release metrics for line usage, data transfer for television shows, etc. Fortunately, it uses standard ip networking over Ethernet. I ended up using a 90's era netgear router and an old Palm V to display link statistics, throughput, etc. The connection was made using paper-clips.... more info after the break!
A Quick Tuesday Prediction
Being capitalists, Microsoft will shortly roll out a buyback program for downloaded Xbox Live arcade games. Games can be "returned" for 1000 Microsoft points, with the caveat that if you want to re-download the game, it will cost you full price. Corollary prediction, they will make money hand over fist. That is all.
The littlest famicom
Ok not really. But it's pretty sad anyway. Tired of playing games on virtual console, I set out to construct my own nes (and make use of the carts strewn about my closet).
Finished building my first guitar
Mark brought over his copy of Make, and it turns out this last Makezine had a great article on building cigar box guitars. It sounded like a really interesting project, so we went off to the hardware store to purchase some oak timber. Many days/hours/blood stains later, the fruits of our labor emerged, tuned and ready to play. 
. Lots of hack potential, and an easy fix if I break something. Bonus, tablature looks fine in links browser on the Z2, though you will have to scroll quite a lot. I'll see about getting gnome guitar working, should be interesting (mono bleh). Yet again another use case for the Z2 I wouldn't have imagined.
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!!
Site Upgrades!
So I finally got around to upgrading my site. New features include:
About time right?