Hacker-type games/events, and geekish places to visit around the world...

[rkill]

Re: Hacker-type games/events, and geekish places to visit around the world...

Seattle: When visiting the Emerald City Comicon take some time to stop buy and say hello at the Metrix Create:Space.

I'm sure some of you can relate...

Stop by and say hello! And while you're at the Metrix buy something from the vending machine.

On the topic of my lack of attention to detail, allow me to make another correction.

I live on the Eastside and didn't even mention Black Lodge Research. What else can one expect from a lurker?

[davien]

Re: Hacker-type games/events, and geekish places to visit around the world...

The Erotic Heritage Museum (http://www.eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com/) in Las Vegas was educational and entertaining (they had live performances when I went).

Also in Vegas, the Pinball Hall of Fame: http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

[Nightarcher]

The lizard wireless station in Cornwall uk. Is a really cool place, you can see where Marconi worked on expanding wireless signal.

Also if you a licensed wireless operate they actually have some units to use which is pretty cool when you think where you are.

[ironfeather`]

When in Tokyo check out the "Hackers Bar", they have code night, game nights and a hack night. You can pay for drinks with bitcoin and they have drinks such as "Blue Screen", "Kernal Panic", "Hackers Highball" etc. Every Monday at the HackersBar, they hold English Tech Talks.... http://hackers.bar

[TechGirlMN]

The Spam museum in Austin Mn. It covers digital Spam as well, as the skit from Monty Python.

[TheCotMan]

If you find you are in Poznan Poland , there are a few items to visit about Polish mathematicians that created some of the first known, successful attacks against first generation Enigma encoding devices. Their initial attacks against these first generation Enigma encoding devices laid the groundwork for later attacks against future Enigma encoding devices as Germans added Uhr plugboards, more rotors and choices of rotors.

http://www.enigmacentrum.pl/index.php?id=114

It is a trailer-sized building in front of the "Imperial Castle" in Poznan Poland.

You can use "Google Maps" and their "Street View" to see the *location* of this trailer-sized museum:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Th.../data=!4m5!3m4!

Look to the street "Swiety Marcin" (Święty Marcin) near where it intersects "Kosciuszki" (Kościuszki)

If you look towards the Imperial Castle, from street view, you should be able to see a monument to the Polish Mathematicians that broke the encryption system of the early Enigma encoding devices. This monument is a Tall metal monument (around 4 to 5 meters?) on the sidewalk. It has a triangular base, and flat surfaces. This monument appears to be called "Kryptologow (Kryptologów).

Not in the present copy of images from Google Street View, to the left of this monument as you look towards the Imperial Castle from the street is a trailer-sized building made to look like a really large Enigma encoding device. You can see a picture of what this trailer-sized building looks like on this page at the bottom: http://www.enigmacentrum.pl/index.php?id=114 This building is also on the sidewalk and not attached to the main building.

Information contained in the trailer-sized building is presently in the form of text signs, videos, and interactive media on touch screens.
If you read the content on these web pages, you can read a majority of the text on the signs in this exhibit, leaving you to just watch the videos and interact with the touch screen demos:
* http://enigmacentrum.pl/index.php?id=1895 : A time-line of events related to Enigma and efforts to break the systems used to hide data
* http://enigmacentrum.pl/index.php?id=1894 : A collection of stories and information about the Enigma encoding device and efforts to break the systems used to hide data

Be sure to contact them ahead of your visit to make sure they will be open and they do not have classes or private tours dominating the exhibit. They have a "contact us" link on their page and they do respond to email, and have at least one person that can speak English.

If you can manage to spend a day in Poznan, they have a game you can play, where you are given a piece of paper with clues, and you wander around Poznan to various sites, gathering clues to solve a puzzle and get a secret message.

For the trailer-sized Enigma/History-of-Polish-Mathematicians exhibit, you can keep you pack/bag and tech.



In Warsaw, they have an Enigma encoding device on dis[play on the top floor of the Technical museum in Warsaw. That display is not very large, but the Technical museum in Warsaw has descriptions of most items in each exhibit in English and Polish. This technical museum also has a collection of computers from the 70s through to the 90s.
The Museum of Technology in Poland is located:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mu...21.0036977,17z
It is located as a *part* of the "Museum of Culture and Natural History". Look at the map. The south-western rectangular building that i attached the whole building is the Museum of Technology. It has it own entrance fee.
The North-East rectangular building that it attached, is a theater for performances.
The central part of this building, south of this theater, on the eastern side has access (and fees) to top floor outlook to see the city from a higher elevation. You can walk around each side of the building on this observation level to take pictures.

For the observation deck, at this location and the technical museum, you need to check your bag. If you have tech like a laptop, you may have to leave it there. Make arrangements before you enter. Cell phone and cameras were ok, but I think they wanted you to disable the flash on your camera/smartphone.

[Mitchell Effect]

The Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, WV has the largest movable radio telescope on the planet. It is massive -- larger than two football fields. Walking tours of the large facility and museum are free, and excellent guided tours are only $6. http://greenbankobservatory.org/

Another interesting fact about the location is that it's located in the National Radio Quiet Zone, where electromagnetic emissions (radio, wifi, cell phones, etc...) are heavily restricted. There are a even some underground NSA eavesdropping bases nearby in the outskirts of Sugar Grove, WV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...dio_Quiet_Zone

[number6]

Seattle has https://livingcomputers.org/ Living Computers Museum and Labs: it is a collection of older technology, may of the items in the collection are available for hands-on use. Some are available remotely through a JavaScript webpage to terminal access using https://ssh.livingcomputers.org/
Ever wanted to play with a PDP-8? PDP-11? A DEC Alpha? All of these and more are available at this museum and online.
They have a punch-card machine, to allow you to punch your own computer punch-card.
They also have tours and labs.

[Approach]

I have a friend who, NO SHIT, bought several working Cray supercomputers here...

[mprime]

https://www.wonderville.nyc/

Collection of one-of-a-kind arcade games, each one more awesome than the next one https://www.wonderville.nyc/games