Camp 2011: Session Ideas

This is where you can add your ideas for sessions. These ideas may be preliminary and incomplete, and can disappear at any time!

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Gamin Like it’s 1979: Why Interactive Fiction is Hot Again

Use ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS to Talk to People in OTHER COUNTRIES — ham radio and other modern miracles.

The End of The Recording Industry: File Sharing & Other Disruptions. What’s Next?

Lucid Dreaming – Methods of Hacking the Subconscious Mind for Ideas and Problem Solving

Low-Cost, Low-Tech Aerial Photography

How to Play Xiang Qi – One of Chess’s Grandparents

Hacking Commercial EEG-Based Toys to Control Other Devices Via Brain Waves

Hacking/Bending Musical and Video Circuits and Devices – Acquiring and Recycling Discarded Technology

What is chiptune, and how to write your own chip music

How to start your own museum

Critical thinking and otherly musings in documentary radio*

*and/or podcasting, etc.

Hacking China III: Walking through a couple new electronics products I worked on in 2010 on a four figure budget (with show and tell)

Bending the Microsoft Kinect to your will (with a cool interactive music demo if my will is sufficiently strong)

Lockpicking for fun and profit more fun

Chemical Explosions, Crowds and Camera Crews: Adventures from Living 24/7 in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry

Turn ON the Draw: reclaiming drawing as a thinking tool

Social engineering and how not to sell your soul (or your future) to a VC

Intro to Wushu Ropedart (ancient chinese weapon)

Behind the headlines: what are those Palantir Technologies people up to, anyway?

Teaching Students how to be Hackers: See session notes from last year

If more women coded, the world would be a better place. Yes or No?

Sequenced tattoo murals, tattoo conventions and competitions, and the unexpected presence of computer science and engineering in Hell.

“The Art & Science of Smoking Pigs” – Friday Evening Random Act of BBQ, Saturday Presentation (there may be rib tips 🙂