Here’s some happy hackers at the Howduino day in VIVID on Saturday, arranged by fizzPOP. Don’t ask me what they’re doing, because I really don’t know. Soldering summin, I think. All day the gallery was full of people tinkering to make normal things act oddly – like teddy bears turning evil, bubble-blowers responding to Twitter updates and, in Antonio Roberts’ case, a cardboard tube that noisily responds to light (a bit like a Thingamagoop):
To get the low-down from someone who seriously paid attention in class, read Arvydas’ account of hacking a toy car, which he successfully did to make it do this:





