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A number of people have asked me to put info about our team's badge hack up on the forums -- we'll be posting a step-by-step HOWTO, but for now, here's a link to the page where we'll put them, which currently has kingpin's poem (interpretted by the rappers "The Brothers Grimm"):
http://www.osogato.com/hacks/
I think it's also worth mentioning, for the other 39 people who picked up the Spyder development kits (the programmer that one uses to write code to the microcontroller), that the Spyder actually *comes* with an 8-pin dip version of the µc *inside* the programmer, which you have to rip out (and optionally, stomp on while cussing loudly for 3 minutes, if you've been trying to load code onto the badge for the last 30 hours). This information is buried in a manual somewhere on a CD, but otherwise unadvertised.
(I suspect that this is why there were only seven entries, and only two of those (ours and the Game of Life fellow) managed to actually load the code themselves rather than using kingpin's rig.)
Regardless, thanks much to DT and Kingpin for the badges. This was the most fun I've had with a DC contest yet.
--rabbi.
http://www.osogato.com/hacks/
I think it's also worth mentioning, for the other 39 people who picked up the Spyder development kits (the programmer that one uses to write code to the microcontroller), that the Spyder actually *comes* with an 8-pin dip version of the µc *inside* the programmer, which you have to rip out (and optionally, stomp on while cussing loudly for 3 minutes, if you've been trying to load code onto the badge for the last 30 hours). This information is buried in a manual somewhere on a CD, but otherwise unadvertised.
(I suspect that this is why there were only seven entries, and only two of those (ours and the Game of Life fellow) managed to actually load the code themselves rather than using kingpin's rig.)
Regardless, thanks much to DT and Kingpin for the badges. This was the most fun I've had with a DC contest yet.
--rabbi.
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