[Noisebridge-discuss] Sifteo Hack Night !!!

[Cedric H.]

Hackers !!!
Let's hack the sifteo cubes !!!
There's hack night in SF next month and the most popular hack video will
win a sifteo set:
http://sifteoopenhacknight.eventbrite.com

If you don't know sifteo, you can see it as a multi-cubes wireless sensor
swarm with:

   - 3D accelerometers
   - touch screens
   - NFC sensors (to detect the other cubes)
   - a usb connection to computer
   - a speaker (and maybe more* if you ask nicely)

Here is an awesome article made by a legendary sifteo hacker:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/12/05/how-we-built-a-super-nintendo-out-of-a-wireless-keyboard-sifteo-sifteo

As an example, some of us already started hacking it to get a headphone
output:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Plug-it-In-How-to-Hack-Your-Sifteo-Base-for-Bigge

...but there's a lot of awesome things to do:
• hacking PC connected applications (make music, flame control, dancing
robots...)
• hacking accessories (cube sleeves, play mats, watches, or other
contraptions...)
• hacking the guts of the hardware (things like headphone jack instructable)
• and why not hacking games too ? ;p

No problem if you're not so much into programming, a few sifteo hackers
will be there to help with the SDK ! (it's in C++, a bit like arduino)
Spread the word !!
;)


*if you have a particularly crazy (but simple) idea, a sifteo engineer
might also be able to help (to send UART messages to an arduino for example)
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