Hackathon February 25th 2012

This last weekend our shop had our monthly hackathon. I was pleased with all that we got accomplished. We had a wide range of projects this weekend:

• Building a laptop stand car mount.
• Added email support for our guest book.
• Built leds into a handset for notifications.
• Helped setup some gnu/linux boxes.
• Rss filtering and aggregation.
• Ate loads of pizza.
• Fixed a flat panel tv with some minor adjustments.
• Used a smudge pot to heat and blind members.
• Fixed a stack overflow in a flight computer.
• Worked on a two factor authentication token.
• Using an ink jet printer to apply an etch resist to pcbs.
• Rebuilt a reflow oven and controller.
• Planned a film shoot.
• Built a sword out of wood for dragoncon.
• Freeze drying machine vacuum chamber.
• Building better ventilation system for our laser cutter.

and finally a nice trip to ihop for the survivors of the night.