[hackerspaces] March Madness Challenge

[Matt Joyce]

All mine will be at NYCR Blog.  Here's the first.

http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/03/01/march-madness-march-1st-app/



On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Bob Clough <parag0n at ivixor.net> wrote:

> We're meeting your challenge as a group, heres the links to where we're
> documenting everything!
>
> http://hacman.org.uk/tag/marchmadness
> http://hacman.org.uk/wiki/index.php/March_Madness
>
> -Bob
> HACMan <http://hacman.org.uk>
>
> On 12 February 2010 19:06, Fair Use Building And Research Labs <
> general at fubarlabs.com> wrote:
>
>> What's FUBAR Labs <http://fubarlabs.com>? We're your neighborhood
>> recently-started New Jersey based
>> hackerspace. This is a challenge we're giving to all of our members,
>> and local hackerspaces for a fun productive March... Here's the note I
>> sent out to our members<http://fubarlabs.com/2010/02/march-madness-challenge/>
>> :
>> ~~~
>>
>> I hereby challenge all of you.
>>
>> The challenge?
>>
>> One program. Every. Day.
>>
>> For all of March.
>>
>>
>> The Language? Any. I don’t care if you use a magnetic needle to flip
>> bits on a hard drive. The Platform? Everything – hell if you can get
>> your Dog to say hello world it’ll count.
>>
>> The rules:
>> 1. You need to write one program, every day. Duh. Any language. You
>> can not duplicate functionality. This means a Hello World in Java is
>> fine, but don’t go and make a Hello World in Python afterward.
>> 2. You need to post the code online. If it’s an embedded project, post
>> a picture/video of it working. Post it online on your hackerspace site
>> or on a personal blog! Share it with the world.  Our code will be going up
>> on http://fubarlabs.com
>> 3. Deadlines for other hackerspaces doesn't matter that much, but try
>> to post your stuff before midnight to count as "for that day".
>>
>> That’s it for rules, but… challenge yourself. The “complexity” of
>> the code is difficult to judge. There is no rule saying you can’t just
>> be clever with LEDs every day. But do something new, challenge
>> yourself. There’s no way to regulate this.
>>
>> Who’s gonna take this on with me?
>>
>> Let's roll,
>>
>> Keith Chester
>>
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