Group photo!

So, there was discussion today around the tables at NYCResistor as people worked on their various projects regarding the ability to produce bots that “baited” people. Bre, remarked that designing a bot that sat around eliciting angry responses would be simple and very similar to simply capturing things I say and spraying them about.

This is when I was reminded of a project I wrote when I was in my first year of college. I was having some trouble showing up to classes, and I needed to ween myself off of IRC, so I basically wrote a bot that would take care of my IRC session for me while I was gone. It was like methadone for an IRC addiction. Sure I was still suffering withdrawal, but the channel was none the wiser and I suffered no ill effects from my repeated absences.

What’s really astounding is the simplicity of the code, and that it somehow lasted 3 weeks before someone realized it was a bot. Ultimately the zero delay responses are what got it caught.

Anyways here’s a blast from the past… one of my first perl scripts…

openfly.pl

Full of early 2000 IRC goodness. Enjoy! Please don’t judge me.

You’ve dreamed of it… now it exists. Credits to Adam Cecchetti, Astera, and Eric Skiff.

Lenny wrote to us about a project he’s completed and to thank us for helping him with some laser needs. I gotta say, I’m really impressed with what he’s built. It’s actually stunning. Check it out!

I don’t usually try to pimp our classes, but the laser class is absolutely one of the best things we’ve done. The amount of people stopping in and taking advantage of our laser to do insanely cool stuff is truly inspiring. I think I speak for everyone at resistor when I say, this is the reason we got the damned thing.

Think Geek sent us 7 boxes full of Cyber Surfers that needed to be “disposed of”.  We said no problem.  What are we doing with 20+ cyber surfers?  Having a helicopter war of course!  The rules are as follows:

• The destruction will take place on Feb. 28th an hour before sunset. Don’t be late.
• The location is still TBA
• You must mod your chopper to be on a different frequency than the others, fly it on xbee or swap the crystal
• If you are getting this post emailed to you – you know who you are and what your role is
• Any way of destruction is acceptable as long as it doesn’t harm humans from 10 yards away
• Be creative, the person who takes down the most other choppers wins
• This is what the inside of your controller looks like, but you should already know that: