It’s 2AM and I finally have the peace of mind to actually write something worth reading… well maybe. The majority of today was spent traveling from South Station in Boston to Penn Station in NYC. Oddly enough there was little to no traffic anywhere on the trip, despite the fact that it’s a weekday. Once we finally arrived we grabbed some McDonalds and attended our first talk.

Hacking cool things with Microcontrollers – Mich Altmann, was a basic talk about how to work with micro controllers and some of the basics of programming such things. He had some very interesting devices and I learned a few things about PWM (pulse width modulation) which only opens up new frontiers for my imagination.

After that we cruised the mezzanine looking at the cool products and some of the areas. One of the more notable tables was hosted by Make Magazine. Not only did they have some cool make products (books issues etc) but they had some cool kits and the Arduino, which I ended up buying. Score. And if all that stuff wasn’t cool enough I got to meet one of the organizers of the Providence Geeks. So needless to say I will definitely have to go to one of their meetings now.

The rest of the afternoon was mired by long lines at the elevators, sweltering heat, pretty girls, over priced meals and the usual ilk for NYC.

We returned to the conference about 11 PM for the digital music portion of things. Most of the attendees were still going strong, camped out in the hammock area listening to different artists mix and spin their own flavors of music.


So far this has been a great experience and we’ve met some pretty cool people along the way well. I’m glad that the hacker community can be so open and allow outsiders, or maybe “hacker-curious” people such as ourselves, the opportunity the share knowledge with each other. Crap. it’s 2:42 AM and I’m finally tired well I think I am anyway.