Tue, 23 Mar 2004

Interesting Hacknight

Hacknight was interesting tonight because I enter the room and was asked to sign this NDA. It sounded kinda fun so I read it over, didn't find anything completely unreasonable, and signed it. Now I have completely given up my freedom of writing in my blog and talking about the experience in detail...

The "game" was basically a GPS (Lets call it location aware) supplimental reality game. In the demo, we chased (and captured) virtual ghosts across a park using PDAs. We were ghost busters! :) The entire concept is going to lead to some really great things I think, what we experienced is only the start. The magic card / RPG geeks are going to go crazy over this crap when it is finished.

Also, Peter and Michael brought a Soekris for Tacoma node. Sounds like we are going to startup the snownet project again, and we should have TacomaNode finished in about two weeks. It will feature a soekris with an orinoco card (and some 'hacks' to correct our timing and retransmit issues), as well as a colo'ed machine with about 30 gigs, and some bandwidth to use (!). I expect we'll be on the roof next weekend if all goes well.

Baldi needs a lot of work if we can't connect up to it, I have heard that things aren't fairing well :D

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