{"id":35,"date":"2008-07-21T19:43:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2022-12-27T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:51:14","slug":"the-last-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-last-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last HOPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hope.net\">The Last HOPE<\/a> at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC.\u00a0 The con was awesome and I had a great time.\u00a0 This was my first HOPE, and I noticed a few strong themes this year, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardware hacking is getting a lot of attention and there is a lot of interest in microcontrollers including new design and reverse engineering off the shelf hardware like RFID.<\/li>\n<li>Local community based physical spaces for hacking are booming.\u00a0 Hackerspaces like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycresistor.com\/\">NYC Resistor<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehacktory.org\/\">Hacktory <\/a>are becoming a very big part of the scene, and new hackerspaces are popping up all over the world.\u00a0 Each space has their own unique interests, but common themes seem to be microcontroller hacking (especially <a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/\">Arduino<\/a>), fabrication (like <a href=\"http:\/\/reprap.org\/bin\/view\/Main\/WebHome\">Reprap<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fabathome.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Fab@Home<\/a>) and other more physical projects instead of just writing code.\u00a0 There was even a new wiki announced at the show that is devoted to tracking hackerspaces and helping start new ones at <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerspaces.org\">hackerspaces.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There was an awesome talk about Biohacking by Chris Seidel (I wish I could find a link) that makes me wonder if we will see more of this in the future as Bioengineering becomes more accessible to the masses.\u00a0 The parallels Chris identified between biological processes and electrical circuits were spooky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hackers_On_Planet_Earth#The_Last_HOPE\">announced during the closing ceremonies<\/a> that the Hotel Pennsylvania will not be demolished as was previously announced, and that there will indeed be another HOPE in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>NYC Resistor has some info about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycresistor.com\/2008\/07\/21\/3d-wiremap\/\">3D Wiremap demo<\/a>, one of my favorite exhibits, shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/2683953315_b6bce101a4.jpg\" alt=\"3D Volume Renderer\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, I attended The Last HOPE at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC.\u00a0 The con was awesome and I had a great time.\u00a0 This was my first HOPE, and I noticed a few strong themes this year, including: Hardware hacking is getting a lot of attention and there is a lot of interest in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-last-hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Last HOPE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,105,10],"tags":[14,388,9,12,13],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-events","category-microcontrollers","tag-14","tag-hacker-clubs-spaces","tag-hacking","tag-hope","tag-nyc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3976,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-amp-hour-43\/","url_meta":{"origin":35,"position":0},"title":"The Amp Hour #43","author":"Jeff","date":"May 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Amp Hour #43 \u2014 Audacious Arduino Arguments Our first four-way podcast! \u00a0Listen to me,\u00a0Chris, Dave,\u00a0and\u00a0Jeremy chat about Arduino, high altitude balloons, hackerspaces in universities, the Google ADK, and the Maker Faire Bay Area. Kudos to Skype for enabling us to actually pull this off!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur Radio","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/amateur-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/TheAmpHourLogo_150.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/blogs-blogs-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":35,"position":1},"title":"Blogs, blogs, blogs","author":"Jeff","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting electronics\/microcontroller\/hacker themed blogs I'm reading these days: My favorites: NYC Resistor - Definitely the most interesting hackerspace in the US right now.\u00a0 Updates almost daily.\u00a0 I stand in awe of how prolific these guys\/girls are, it seems like they are pushing the envelope of DIY every week.\u00a0 This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1655,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/video-hacking-the-asus-router-for-the-tweet-a-watt\/","url_meta":{"origin":35,"position":2},"title":"Video: Hacking the ASUS router for the Tweet-a-Watt","author":"Jeff","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned last week, Adafruit Industries is hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router to talk to the Tweet-a-Watt. 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