Hack the Pentagon – the first ever U.S. Government commercial Bug Bounty program

If you comply with the requirements, start the engines and hack the planet.

„Individuals are eligible to participate only upon meeting ALL of the following conditions:

  • You must have successfully registered as a participant through this security page.
  • You must have a U.S. taxpayer identification number and a social security number or an employee identification number and the ability to complete required verification forms.
  • You must be eligible to work within the U.S.; meaning you are a U.S. citizen, a noncitizen national of the U.S., a lawful permanent resident, or an alien authorized to work within the U.S.
  • You must not reside in a country currently under U.S. trade sanctions.
  • You must not be on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Specially Designated Nationals list.“

https://hackerone.com/hackthepentagon

http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/709818/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-peter-cook-on-dods-partnership-with-hacke

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Kinecthack London is coming

This shall be an awesome event !

„What to expect

We’ve managed to secure an entire weekend (so bring your sleeping bags) of access to Cardinal Place (Victoria, London). We’ll provide the food and drink (and some really cool giveaways) so you can have unadulterated hacking focus to build your Kinect based apps, games or anything else in whatever ways you dream up.

Come as a team, work individually or team up at the event, we’ll have plenty of space, power, wifi and desk space for all your hacking needs.

Event Start: Saturday 21st March 10:00am
Event End: Sunday 22nd March 18:00pm

Dan Thomas (http://moov2.com/about)
Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 10:30 Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 18:30 (GMT)

London, United Kingdom“
Kinecthack London

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kinecthack-london-tickets-15373679088

Make a slim watch with ARM Cortex-M3 EFM32

Hack-a-Gecko project by Anders and Adam 

How to make a very slim watch and keep battery life long? In this Hack-a-Gecko project, they tried to catch two birds with one stone.

The Idea
We thought it would be cool to utilize the extremely low power EFM32 in combination with an extremely low power display to create a wrist watch demo application. And usually, the smaller and thinner something is, the cooler it is. (Admittedly, wrist watches do not necessarily follow this trend… big watches.)

Anyway, we wanted it slim. The starting point was the memory LCD display from Sharp (link). It is truly a Nano ampere display technology. And it is also thin, only 0.75 mm. A watch also needs a battery, cool new technologies exist such as the Thinergy battery, but the voltage of 4.1 V is a bit awkward. We decided to use a standard 3.0V CR1616 cell as it can power the EFM32 and display directly. Thickness of battery + display is 2.35 mm, is it possible to design the electronics as well within this thickness limit…? Challenge accepted!“

http://blog.energymicro.com/2012/12/12/make-a-slim-watch-with-arm-cortex-m3-efm32/

found via http://hackaday.com/2012/12/12/super-slim-wristwatch-build/

iTurn – iPhone and iPod Touch Hack

http://www.iamshadowlord.com/2008/12/iturn-iphone-and-ipod-touch-hack.html

„The iPhone or iPod Touch has an accelerometer that detects how the device is oriented. As the devices moves off axis (from straight up and down) the screen rotates. I want to use that feedback to control the position of a motor or servo or cause specific events to happen depending on the device’s position.“

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