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Welcome to the HatCH Community!
HatCH="Hack at Chapel Hill".
We now have a Wiki to keep info on all current/future projects! In general, when you want to get a project going, create a page for it and link it from here!
Overview
HatCH has a distinguished history at UNC Chapel Hill, dating back to the fall of 2012, and it includes students, faculty, and staff. HatCHlings meet in a long, narrow cave in the basement of Sitterson Hall, where there are lots of important-looking machines and a few mischievous-looking people.
In haiku:
- HatCH is like the sea
- but without all the water.
- Now I am hungry.
- HatCH is like the sea
Links
If you're curious about what a hackerspace or makerspace is, or check out some awesome hacks by others, check out these links! Also, we are now located on the hackerspace wiki!
Some good electronics supplies resources:
Hardware and building materials
Hackerspace friends
Projects
MAME Arcade Machine (an arcade machine which is capable of running any number of different arcade games)
NuclearSheep is a program to demonstrate the ease of SSLStrip-based attacks and encourages sites to upgrade to SSL (even most banks aren't there yet!)
LED Throwies Attempted to make LED graffiti art--apparently hearing aid batteries do not work...or they only work when you stack them...
Project Stealthy DiscoPad We're going to attempt to track where people are walking/dancing by putting some piezo sensors under the floor and running that data to a microcontroller (the floor tiles in HatCH come up and there is storage space underneath!). (Obviously, this is a good idea, because everyone dances here).
Lightning Detector Circuit Circuit which can detect an RF pulse and display on an analog meter, with the option of logging the data on a computer.
Speakers The notorious and dubious subterranean HatCH audio system.
Webcam Portal Talk with other hackerspaces, or just take a peek inside HatCH!
