DC Hack and Tell

Round 7: Thermal Prior Scarab

If you’re hungry for more wrap-ups like this, including five from DC and 21 from NYC and Madison, WI, check out the hackandtell/wrapup repo on github - there’s a lot of coolness there!

It was great to see everyone once again at the inimitable iStrategyLabs - here are the presentations in (mostly) tachyon-experiential order:

• Julian put a USB Arduino in a box with some serious lights and switches - it’s missile control for shipping code! [photo]

• Eric can give you CSV for that JSON - with a neat web interface that’s easy as π. It does in JavaScript what in2csv does in Python (csvkit). [source]

• Josh wants you to host your own email, and he’ll even help you out: continuing the in-a-box theme, he offers Mail in a Box. It’s up for the Knight News Challenge, so go and support it!

• Kevin scratched an itch, making his work recording student behavior easier. After learning to make an app that creates and reads QR codes and everything, the result is now in the app store: OoGali

• Aaron complained about the over-abundance of npm, but the hack was a simple Popularity Contest. It’s frankly amazing the thing hasn’t broken yet.

• Probably the most important presentation of the evening was a bonus from Eric: Justin Grimes is on the Play Store. This is a game-changer.

We’re working on scheduling the April H&T; there are already a couple cool projects on deck. Happy hacking!