Pay your knowledge forward, glass paperweight making and hardware hacking. 

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 [Quick bit: The 1kB code contest is on now!] Pay your knowledge forward, glass paperweight making and hardware hacking. Goodbye 2016. By [Sophi Kravitz] 2016 was a busy year! Between the Hackaday Prize, World Create Day, SuperConference, Hackaday Belgrade and all of our online and offline community meetups and challenges, Hackaday.io remains the funnest place on the internet (and off, too) to hang out. On Hackaday.io, we're changing the way we all build hardware by making it more accessible and collaborative to everyone. A great way to pay forward the new skills you found on Hackaday this season is to share your knowledge in the [Hacker Channel]. Right now: [the 1kB contest] is on through the holidays and ends January 5th. This contest has been incredibly popular and there are some top entries to compete against. [Enter now!] Our how-to videos this week feature glass paperweight making and hardware hacking. Do you make tutorial style videos? Email me: sophi@hackaday.com Looking for an extra special holiday gift? The [Hackaday Superconference badge] is now for sale on Tindie. See you in 2017! VIDEO BITSVideos this week: How-to be a Hardware Hacker + Glass Making How to be a Hardware Hacker [Samy Kamkar] is a security researcher who gave an informative talk about hardware hacking and reverse engineering at the Hackaday SuperConference. [Check out the video] [»] Building with glass and flame! Cathy Richardson discusses the process that she uses to make a glass paperweight with a little show and tell. This is a very interesting process that is worth seeing! [Check out the video] [»] [More new stuff] PROJECT BITS1kB challenge entries JAR clock By [taciuc marius] Taciuc immersed a microcontroller in mineral oil to make a neat-looking clock in a jar! [Check it out] [»] 1kb Image Compression By [Peter Noyes] This project attempts to create an application that decompresses an image and makes it fit into 1kB of ROM. Plus, it's written in 6502 assembly! [Check it out] [»] MORE BITSHackaday Worldwide Meetups, events and workshops [Hackaday NYC Jan 23rd:] It's going to be a demo night. Bring your craziest projects and your finest blinkies. [RSVP now] [»] [32C3: 30th Chaos Communication Congress Dec 27:] 32C3 is an annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. We hope to see you there. [More info here] [»] [More Hackaday.io projects] [Terms of Use] [Privacy Policy] [Hackaday.io] [Hackaday.com] This email was sent to [{EMAIL}] [why did I get this?] [unsubscribe from this list] [update subscription preferences] Hackaday · 51 Dayton Street · Pasadena, CA 91105 · USA