Workshops: Lockpicking, LED Throwies, Liberate Your iPod, and More…
July 18th, 2006 mlc
Something new for HOPE Number Six that a lot of people may not yet know about is our workshop area, where you can get hands-on with some neat technologies.
Our good friends at TOOOL will be offering all kinds of their ever-popular lockpicking activities at their area. If you want to practice the advanced techniques mentioned in the lockpicking panel, or if you want to learn how to get started, this is the place.
We’ll also be having some folks from the Graffiti Research Lab making their LED Throwies and demonstrating some of their other technologies. You may even get to take one of the throwies home!
Would you like to free your iPod from Apple’s proprietary firmware? Our workshop leader writes: Install alternative firmware like RockBox or iPodLinux onto your portable music player. Gain the ability to play additional formats including patent- and royalty-free OGG Vorbis and FLAC while losing support for DRM and the requirement to use iTunes to copy music onto your player. With non-Apple firmware, you’ll also gain the ability to run software of your choice including hundreds of games and utilities. Both RockBox and iPodLinux are easy to use and the only hard part is installing. Just bring your iPod! You’ll leave with a liberated audio player and knowledge to help others liberate theirs.
And, if you have a Sony PlayStation Portable, we’ll be working with those, too.
Watch also for a retrocomputing display of old technology, something to do with Segways, and more. Stop by the info desk for a schedule, or just drop by the workshop area and see what’s going on.
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11 Comments
1. Ryan Hoffer | July 18th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
These workshops sound real cool. I’ll definitely stop by a few of them.
2. Xenophule | July 18th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Awesome! This just tells me that I need to go out and buy more caffeine chocolates so I can stay up all night playing with these!
3. talonprime | July 18th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Awesome! I don’t plan on doing much “sleeping” as it is…
4. Cohen | July 19th, 2006 at 9:11 am
iPod Workshop… On my way! I installed Ipod Linux, but to be with some of the masters…. WOHOOO
5. Ryan O'Horo | July 19th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
“[F]ree your iPod from Apple’s proprietary firmware“? “Gain the ability to play additional formats including patent- and royalty-free OGG Vorbis and FLAC“? “[L]iberated audio player?
You’ve got more hype, tripe, and gripe in that description than Roseanne Barr has chins. This isn’t Slashdot, so stop throwing around meaningless rhetoric.
6. blackbag » Hope num&hellip | July 20th, 2006 at 2:04 am
[…] I am currently in Manhattan preparing for my lockpick and CryptoPhone presentations at the Hope number six conference. […]
7. I’m at HOPE Number &hellip | July 21st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
[…] Stopped in this afternoon to see a really fun lock-picking demonstration by Barry “The Key” Wels and Marc Tobias (workshops running all weekend) and to hear Richard Stallman talk about free software (inspiring, and a little frightening.) […]
8. {InSelist cure} | July 22nd, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Where is URL’s of all the speakers presentations and the links of the that they mentioned during there presentations ?
9. remaerdyaD | August 8th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
yo, d00d, ogg like totally rul3z!!!
10. Aus | October 26th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Where is URL’s of all the speakers presentations and the links of the that they mentioned during there presentations ?
I would also like to know this.
11. Mike | November 10th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Whatever happened to the post-HOPE section Emmanuel was talking about last summer?