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Arduino is an open-source development platform for embedded projects - things that live away from your computer - which can easily connect to other things, such as switches, lights, computers and so on. Then Arduino (and it’s many siblings) came along and opened up the world of hardware hacking, which until that point had tapped into existing computing devices, be they PCs, games consoles or other existing hardware platforms. Often at the same time! Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere sums this up, with humour, complex API mashup and art. Music Hackday is a great example at a typical MHD, hacks will combine Spotify, Soundcloud, Musixmatch and more to deliver interesting web applications and amusing concept art. Now, every online service company has an API (Application Programming Interface) and encourages people to use it. Other companies saw the potential, and started organising hackathons for various reasons: internally, to foster innovation and teamwork externally, to promote customisable products, to engage with customers, to recruit, or to improve security. In this case, a high pressure job interview epitomising Mark Zuckerberg’s move-fast-and-break-things philosophy the Like button even originated at an internal hackathon. Perhaps the hacker manifestos were right.įacebook made the hackathon famous, as depicted in The Social Network.
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Frameworks and languages exploded, and a generation of children raised on cracked ZX Spectrum software got into programming. In the wider world of software development, the tools were getting simpler and more accessible. Collaboration and competition flourished together, both in multiplayer FPS games and in coding. Increasingly accessible, and increasingly socially acceptable, groups of gamers and coders gathered and did their favourite things into the small hours. In parallel to the demoparty scene, LAN parties grew and overlapped. Then consider this JPEG of cats in trees, which weighs in at 66kB:
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You can watch it on YouTube, but for true geek points, track down the original demo (Windows only) and think about how they generate over six minutes of eye-popping video, music and text from just 64kB. For me, the scene is exemplified by Poem to a Horse by Farbrausch.
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A roomful of PCs, pizzas and the rest: entire weekends spent with bleary eyes, creating increasingly beautiful electronic art. Some lost interest in cracking, maybe they even grew up and got day jobs making software. They loved the intellectual challenge of building incredible graphics and sound into the minuscule memories of the hardware of the day. One group would attempt to outdo the others by being first, by creating the best ASCII art, and then by adding increasingly complex ‘demos’ to the loading screens of the games they cracked. Be the fastest, most artful, most ‘3l33t’ at cracking games. Which, of course, justified breaking the copy protection on a ZX Spectrum game made by a couple of teenagers in their bedroom.īehind the high-minded screeds, it was really all about a competition to be the best. And a few who wrote elaborate manifestos about how “information wants to be free”. The kind of people who played War Games, who cracked and distributed software, p33ple wH0 L0veD 2 rit3 liKe th15. To the best of my knowledge, it all began with those hackers that we used to be scared of. Novation’s Hacker-in-Chief (Head of Product Innovation) Dave Hodder explains the often-intimidating world of Hackathons and how spending a day locked in a room of fellow ‘hax0rs’ can lead to concepts such as the open-source functionality of the new Launchpad Pro.
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They’re the ones who spend their time coding, programming and debugging, and creating new ways of doing things which, eventually, helps to shape the way you make music. Here at Novation, we’re proud to have some seasoned hackers in our midst.