🎭 CURTAINS CLOSING!

The Hack Night after the last Hack Night of the Spring 2024 semester, during dead week. We managed to make a badge! It felt bittersweet, but super exciting nevertheless.

THANKS FOR A GREAT YEAR!

🟩 Hack Night 5.0 was a magical upgrade. Here's what happened:

• d~5~5|5 (8:00pm): Hacking begins
• d~a~a|a (8:30pm): Opening remarks
• e~0~0 (9:00pm): Session: Project brainstorming
• e~a~a|a (10:00pm): Circle: Spoken language
• f~5~5|5 (11:00pm): Circle: Programming languages
• 0~0~0 (12:00am): Demos
• 0~a~a|a (1:00am): Lightning talk: Nix

The theme was "brat" — more accurately, "hack night and it's the same but it's 5.0 so it's not" — just in time before the end of brat summer.

We ran demos for the first time (for real this time), kicking off weekly demos in preparation for The Show at the end of the semester.

🧡Cloudflare covered our pizza this week, which was all about how you can use Cloudflare Workers in your projects.

Some demos we want to highlight:

• Xander made his first PCB with the help of another Hack Night attendee
• Jadden & team made ETea
• Ray made a Tauri app that generates a short link to anything with a keyboard shortcut, using Cloudflare Workers

This is gonna be a good year 💛

🌵 Stranded in the desert at night, together, at Hack Night 5.2! There was plenty of 🍕food and water though 🌕

Thanks to 🧡Cloudflare for buying us pizza and giving us the opportunity to spread the word about Workers AI. A couple people built projects that used Workers AI tonight and started evangelizing it to others!

At midnight, folks demoed projects including a Teenage Engineering-like music player, an Arduino-powered GPS tracker, and a nuclear testing simulator for Meta Quest.

This event was a little bit lighter on events, which are expected to pick back up next week. Here's what happened:

• d~5~5|5 (8:00pm): Hacking begins
• e~0~0 (9:00pm): ~Circle: Spoken Language~ Canceled
• e~a~a|a (10:00pm): ~Session: TBD~ Canceled
• f~5~5|5 (11:00pm): Circle: Programming Languages
• 0~0~0 (12:00am): Demos

25% CHECKPOINT REACHED 🚩

Thanks to 🧡Cloudflare for a third week of support. We had a blast discussing all the uses for R2 buckets (which our passports are built on).

• d~5~5|5 (8:00pm): Hacking begins
• e~0~0 (9:00pm): Circle: Spoken Language
• e~a~a|a (10:00pm): Passport-making ceremony
• f~5~5|5 (11:00pm): Circle: Programming Languages
• 0~0~0 (12:00am): Checkpoints

This was our first week running "Checkpoints" in place of ~midnight demos~, and it was a huge success. Checkpoints changed three things:

• They're called 🚩Checkpoints instead of ~Demos~
• You can only share something you worked on within the last week
• We brought a microphone and speaker so you don't have to fight for attention :)

The result was that folks shared lots of in-progress things that they otherwise would not have shared, and the speaker made it so that they didn't have to project nearly as much (and brought many more people to the front). Great event!

🌿 Hack Night 5.3 was a special event. The badge was the best one we've ever made—it was 7 pieces of a hexagonal puzzle that, when assembled, revealed a message in a vine script that folks had to decode. The message led them to a website and a mysterious rotary phone placed in a corner of the Bechtel Center which contained another message. Those who made it all the way to the end received tickets which they redeemed for Insomnia cookies.

70 people joined us at Hack Night 5.3 and went on until 7:30. One group started a Rubik's cube computer, and someone else wrote a "brainfuck cpu" on their FPGA. People shared awesome things at Checkpoints as always.

Thanks 🧡Cloudflare for covering pizza for the fourth & final time! We had a great time evangelizing SQLite at the Edge with D1.