{"id":31199,"date":"2014-12-09T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=31199"},"modified":"2014-12-09T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:23:01","slug":"hackfest-showcases-work-of-technology-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/12\/hackfest-showcases-work-of-technology-enthusiasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackfest showcases work of technology enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/frink.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31201\" title=\"frink\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/frink.jpg\" alt=\"frink\" width=\"346\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join a group of interested technology enthusiasts as they build, deconstruct, mash-up, and re-envision information from the web.<\/p>\n<p>Set in an informal environment, attendees at <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtown.com\/event\/3128189\/Brock-Library-Hackfest-V2--CDH-Saint-Catharines-ON\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Library Hackfest V.2<\/a> will be free to mix, mingle, discuss ideas, and to begin working on prototypes or drafting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The event is set for Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in TH 269 C, <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/digital-humanities\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Digital Humanities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New this time is a &#8220;Getting Started with Arduino&#8221; workshop from 10 a.m.-noon.<\/p>\n<p>Never been to a Hackfest before? No problem. The only requirement is your curiosity and a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock Library and the Centre for Digital Humanities will provide the coffee, breakfast, Wi-Fi, and whiteboard space.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a collection of electronics to use in your collaborations (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to anyone interested in attending. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day there will be an opportunity to briefly present what you&#8217;ve hacked.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting presentation wins a prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in an informal environment, attendees at Brock Library Hackfest V.2 will be free to mix, mingle, discuss ideas, and to begin working on prototypes or drafting solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[2055,263,2093,838,1967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31205,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31199\/revisions\/31205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}