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Dear Hacker,

Shipping a technical project that you’re proud of is among the most validating and rewarding things you can do as a young person. College is the best time in our lives to do it—but actually doing it is soooooooooo hard. You have to find something you’d enjoy building, feels unique, and allows you to learn new things, but not too many new things, otherwise you’ll give up. Then, you have to find the time and motivation to actually build the thing—all while being pulled in every direction by academic and social obligations.

It’s no surprise most students simply don’t bother, & graduate never having made something they’re proud of.

Purdue Hackers is a student organization (AKA magical universe) full of radically kind, inclusive, and weirdo creative people who learn new things & ship projects together.

Many of us grew up never having found our people until we were united by our shared love for making things. Via our community, workshops, and Hack Nights, we want to create an environment where you can find your people too, and make magic with them. ✨

If you go to Purdue—whether you've never written code before, or are highly technical, whether you're an art major or a CS major—we invite you to join our universe.


See you soon,

💛⚡️ The Purdue Hackers community


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.

#ship

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Cartic

🦀 🦀 🦀 i made a web api to store my reviews of movies. I call it review-api

#ship

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Neil

made a silly link extender, which puts a ton of loremipsum text as the new link to a webpage

An image of a Discord message showing a really long url. A bunch of lorem ipsum text makes up the long url

#hack-night

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Ayden B

If the stars align I might be able to join

#lounge

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matthew!!!

Rainbow today

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#ship

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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

#awestruck

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JACK-Complete

Node.js Device

Workshops

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Shaders Workshop

Fri Apr 05 2024

FizzyApple12 ran the shaders workshop this year!!! 17 people showed up and made some cool visuals with code 🌈

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LWSN B155Hackers: 17
Interpreters Workshop

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

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PHYS 203Hackers: 95
Sound Galaxy 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
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LWSN B155Hackers: 50

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

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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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wackhacker@hacknight:~$

hacknight login: wackhacker

Password:

Last login: Fri May 04 16:16:08 on tty2

wackhacker@hacknight:~$ _

Adding user 'hacker' ...

Creating home directory '/dir' ...

Copying files from '/etc/skel' ...

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Hack Night 4.7.1

Sat Apr 27 2024

🎭 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!

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The Bechtel CenterHackers: 45
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Hack Night 5.0

Sat Aug 31 2024

🟩 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 💛

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The Bechtel CenterHackers: 100
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Hack Night 5.1

Sat Sep 07 2024

🌵 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
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The Bechtel CenterHackers: 95
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Hack Night 5.2

Sat Sep 14 2024

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!

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The Bechtel CenterHackers: 80
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Hack Night 5.3

Sat Sep 21 2024

🌿 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.

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The Bechtel CenterHackers: 72
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