Hacker School Projects

I had an amazing time at Hacker School. Here are most of the things I worked on.

• Trie Data Structure (Haskell, Python, C) with Cerek
• Image Blurring (Haskell) with Pedro
• Tiny bit of Rust (getting the time) – with Pedro
• Built a Mouse! Learned lots about HID and mouse drivers.
  • Mouse can act as a Mouse (randomly moves around), keyboard (prints out a character on button click), or serial device (I can listen to when the button is clicked on the mouse). Probably project that took the longest time.
• MIT Splash - 8 hrs teaching High School students:
  • Wizardry through cooking and science (How to make sugar glass)
  • How to throw a Frisbee
  • Painting with Computers: Recent Advancements in Magic
  • Puzzles and Physics (Question and Solution) – really love this
• Hack Princeton – Built Brunchly
• Hella Fast Command Line Navigation
• OS - Built a Network driver for MIT’s 6.828 - it’s lab 6
• Kernel Module to get my keyboard working
• Made a blog
• Built a debugger in Python
  • Taught me about ptrace, how debuggers work in general, and cython! (Not cpython)
• zulip.chaselambda.com
• makefiletutorial.com
• vimsheet.com
• Unicode! whatisunicode.com
  • Spent quite a bit of time diving into Unicode and encodings. Still need to write up about this.
• Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers
  • Also learned about Ipython notebooks
  • Went up to ch4 I believe. Need to go back to make sure i understand the subtleties
• Visited NYC Resistor Hackerspace
  • Amazingly wonderful. Met Olivia Bar there (great artist!):
  • Beagleboard has coprocessors! One project used these to make a massive LED cube
• bit of python 3 and pyenv
• Bit of Elixir with Florian
• topcoder
• Eudyptula Challenge
• Node Promises with Pedro
• LD_PRELOAD w/ Julia Evans
• light dimmers for xmas lights - got shocked :/. W/ James Keene
• indoorbot/doorbot w/ Geoff, Susan, Vito
• 172 project instructions + wiki changes

Not Projects

• Museums wow!
  • Natural History Museum
  • Brookyln Museum
  • Brooklyn Botanical Garden
• And parks!
  • Central Park
  • Prospect Park (prob my favorite)
  • Fort Greene Park (really nice!)
• biking
• Ran half of the largest marathon in the world
• Amazing Halloween at the Village Halloween Parade
• Started to love Anthony Bourdain
• liquid nitrogen chilled drinks