Purdue Hackers
💛⚡️ a community of students who collaborate, learn, and build kick-ass technical projects
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Community
Find Your People 🌈
The heart & soul of Purdue Hackers is our community on Discord with 1000+ people. Share what you've made in #ship, chat about rainbows in #lounge, share your music musings in #music, ask for technical help in #code—wherever you look, you'll find weird, kind, radically inclusive, and really cool people. It's also where we announce upcoming events.
Enter a world of magic, find people who push you to be your best self, and make awesome things together.
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#ship
Cartic
🦀 🦀 🦀 i made a web api to store my reviews of movies. I call it review-api
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#ship
Neil
made a silly link extender, which puts a ton of loremipsum text as the new link to a webpage
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#hack-night
Ayden B
If the stars align I might be able to join
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#lounge
matthew!!!
Rainbow today
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#ship
Rachel S.
a small victory but i made my first discord bot with python :,) right now it serves as my own personal quotebook but i want it to be my own journal i can scream / rant at
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#awestruck
JACK-Complete
"All things are ready if our minds be so."
- William Shakespeare
Workshops
Late City Edition
weather: rainy and depressing day. A little bit of coffee and coding may help
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Live from our Events site
Fri Apr 05 2024
FizzyApple12 ran the shaders workshop this year!!! 17 people showed up and made some cool visuals with code 🌈
Thu Feb 01 2024
In this workshop, 95 people learned how interpreters work & added a new feature to a language Mikail made, called RustScript 😎
Check out the slides: https://www.puhack.horse/pl-workshop
Thu Jan 18 2024
This was the third time we've run Sound Galaxy (see the 2021 and 2022 editions!). Sound Galaxy inspired our current workshop format: 30 minutes of coding together followed by 30 minutes of hacking—and it's our most successful version of this workshop format. We have yet to run another workshop whose hacking section looks quite like Sound Galaxy's: everyone quickly finds their own unique way to hack on the final product, and they make mind-blowing things. During this edition, more than 10 people stayed well after the scheduled end time of the workshop (7:30) to continue working, which rarely happens. Much 💛 to Sound Galaxy.
Check out some of our favorite hacks:
- fire: https://editor.p5js.org/acezxn/sketches/V121bXKjK
- cool movement: https://editor.p5js.org/Mikah-Kainen/sketches/BeHb6zBCE
- random directions of motion: https://editor.p5js.org/ConTejas624/sketches/-_xZ17NRH
- sky full of stars: https://editor.p5js.org/pswisniewski1/sketches/_y5cAc6PM
- cool colors: https://editor.p5js.org/NinaL129/sketches/ODUT-E-R7
- universe expanding: https://editor.p5js.org/ljchoi007/sketches/hul6Fwa-b
Workshops are our flagship events, happening every two weeks on average. A typical workshop lasts one hour, and is divided into two sections: 30-40 minutes for coding together, and 20-30 minutes for the "hacking" section, where hackers are challenged to take it further on their own.
Workshops are our flagship events, happening every two weeks on average. A typical workshop lasts one hour, and is divided into two sections:
30-40 minutes for coding together, and 20-30 minutes for the "hacking" section, where hackers are challenged to take it further on their own.
Hack Night
The Night is Nigh 🌙
Have you ever felt burdened by the weight of your ever-increasing responsibilities? Do you want to escape from reality, to a plane of existence far away from the endless monotony of daily life? Well, you can't. But you know what you can do? Come to Hack Night! 🌙
Hack Night is uninterrupted time to work on personal projects—anything from a little hack that you ship by the end of the night, to part of a larger project. We run Sessions throughout to help you get started. It's like a mini-hackathon every week. 💫 💻
Join us every Friday at 8pm at the Bechtel Center.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!
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get inducted into
The Republic of Hackerland
There is
No escape.
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Sat Oct 26 2024
👻 We had a spooky Hack Night this week! People were invited to dress up for tonight and they did not disappoint!
👻 Folks had a lot of fun the Systems Circle, with the highest attendance it has had to date!
👻 At 🏁 Checkpoints we got to debut the ☎️✨ Phone Bell ✨☎️ a new method of alerting people to open the door for people who want to get in to Hack Night!
👻 People also showed off software that lets you yell at a computer to make it faster, mathematical visualizations for a point-circle, and more!
We also revealed information about our culminating show at the end of the semester... BURST ✷
Sat Nov 02 2024
🛠️ Autodesk sponsored Hack Night 5.9! We shared some of their CAD products with Hack Night attendees. We also made Hack Night's first ever metal badge, out of 16-gauage steel, using Autodesk Fusion
🛠️ We ran an open planning meeting for BURST ✷ at 10pm, and again after Checkpoints
🛠️ The Spoken Language Circle made progress on the spoken part (they've previously been working on the vine script), and the Systems Circle explored a multilevel feedback queue for process scheduling
🛠️ Folks shared awesome things at 🏁Checkpoints, including Apple Intelligence on an iPhone 12 😳
Sat Nov 09 2024
🚿 We ran another passport-making ceremony, with 7 passports!
🚿 The phone bell, which allows for ringing the doorbell using a rotary phone, was introduced to the space for the first time.
🚿 The Qter group had a call with a famous cubing YouTuber.
🚿 Some Checkpoints included Bad Apple over RSS, a Nix server setup, and an 🌟awestruck markov chain.
Sat Nov 16 2024
🎷 Hack Night 5.11 was sponsored by Jazz (jazz.tools)! We ran a Session on building local-first apps, with demos of apps built with Jazz—including a live demo of Spyfall! Read the code: https://puhack.horse/spyfall
🎷 A friend of Purdue Hackers, Matthew Haubold, brought his saxophone to Hack Night and played smooth jazz music for all Hack Night attendees!
🎷The cooking group made SPAM burgers for folks while the Systems Circle talked about eBPF.
🎷 Tonight's 🏁Checkpoints featured people demoing many ongoing projects, including Qter (a Rubik's cube computer), keysmashd (speed up your computer by typing faster!), and a custom LaTeX renderer! We also demoed an implementation of the social deduction game Spyfall using Jazz, built at Hack Night!
Sat Nov 23 2024
🪼 Hack Night 5.12 had excellent vibes. The door opener returned, an industrial robot arm cleaning operation began, and a Hack Night miracle occurred (a group of regulars who thought they had a conflict were able to come).
🪼 The chefs made homemade ice cream: vanilla, coffee, and cookie dough.
🪼 Tonight's 🏁Checkpoints included Image Playground on an iPhone 12, a server, and the website for BURST ✷.
An excellent event just before everyone left for Thanksgiving break!
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