March Madness

The Challenge

Keith Chester wrote: I hereby challenge all of you. That’s right, I’m taking off my hypothetical still-wish-they-were-in-style white glove and slapping you in the face with it. The challenge? One program. Every. Day. For all of March. The Language? Any. I don’t care if you use a magnetic needle to flip bits on a hard drive. The Platform? Everything – hell if you can get your Dog to say hello world it’ll count. The rules: You need to write one program, every day. Duh. Any language. You can not duplicate functionality. This means a Hello World in Java is fine, but don’t go and make a Hello World in Python afterward. You need to post the code online. If it’s an embedded project, post a picture/video of it working. Every day, I will take the lead on collecting these pictures and posting them the next day online. The deadline for submission of your code/pic/video is MIDNIGHT that day. The result is posted the next day on our website. That’s it for rules, but… challenge yourself. The “complexity” of the code is difficult to judge. There is no rule saying you can’t just be clever with LEDs every day. But do something new, challenge yourself. There’s no way to regulate this. Who’s gonna take this on with me? Throwin down da’ gauntlet, Keith Taken from Fubar Labs

The Participants

Team HACMan

• TBSliver
• parag0n
• JimM
• Jontheniceguy
• Tallscreen
• DoghouseDean
• pwaring

Other Participants

• Mark Sproul
• Benjamin Warncke
• Daniel T
• Adam
• Rick A
• Jason B
• Kieth C
• John O
• Phillip G
• John M

HACMan Rules

1. You should commit the code to the HACMan SVN (ask parag0n, JonTheNiceGuy or TBSliver for the username/password if you dont have it)
2. Use the page for that day for pictures/screenshots and basically all information you can about the program you have written (even if it's a Hello World...) Also add the details to the table below, to make it easier to track whats been done. Use a simple description in the Program column - the Day page is for a detailed description!
3. The program should be under a free software licence, however which one is up to the programmer. Here is a list of free software licences that could be used. If in doubt, just use GPL or whichever licence you're familiar with - The main focus of this is the programming!
4. Do not duplicate the functionality of programs already done for this. As said in the Challenge, this is about learning new things, so even if you're using a language you're completely new to, make it do something interesting - choose a random function from the language and make something interesting from that!
5. Post to the list about your intentions, and which day(s) you want to program for. It would be quite counter productive if we had 5 people for one day, and none for the next 4.
6. Dont worry about getting the description done on the day - as long as the code is done and working, the description can be polished over the next couple of days if necessary.

The Hosting

All code should be commited to the svn - located at svn.hacman.org.uk. As said in the HACMan rules, ask TBSliver or parag0n for the username/password. The project folder is called '2010_March_Madness' and each day has a specific folder to keep things in at least some resemblance of organisation!

The Programs

Day	Programmer	Program
1st	JimM	Rockstorm - Python/PyGame
2nd	JonTheNiceGuy	PHP daemon to poll Twitter replies (hopefully!)
3rd	TBSliver	(VERY) Simple Graph program in Brainf*ck
4th	parag0n	RGB Sphere
5th	Tallscreen	London A-Z Calculator
6th	JimM	"Will it rain" lamp
7th	parag0n	RGB Sphere v2 - Bluetooth Magic Sphere
8th	Tallscreen	Building height calculator
9th	Tallscreen	Word-puzzle solver
10th	TBSliver	(another) BF Program
11th	parag0n	Habari URL Bouncer plugin
12th	parag0n	SVN zipup post-commit hook
13th	JonTheNiceGuy	A dynamic timetable.
14th	JimM	Processing demo - "Sway"
15th	TBSliver	I2C Keypad
16th	pwaring	Wikipedia UK railway scraper
17th	JimM	Text frequency analysis
18th	parag0n	Markov Chain Generator
19th	doghousedean	CSV Homepage
20th	Andrew	Arduino 3 phase triangle wave generator
21st	parag0n	RGBluetooth Ambilight
22nd	Tallscreen	VB6 MP3 renamer
23rd	parag0n	attiny13 low voltage detector
24th	Tallscreen	Arduino Space Game
25th	Tallscreen	Tabloid Truthificator
26th	pwaring	Wikipedia UK railway parser
27th	parag0n	A PHP-based Calendar generator
28th	Sward	Test program for LoL Shield that progressively fills and unfills the display.
29th	pwaring	Perl script to generate sitemap.xml files for websites.
30th	Tallscreen	Minesweeper in Javascript
31st	Various	Mega Hello World