Linux.conf.au 2012

LCA 2012: hacking all the things!

Hardware hacking seems increasingly popular. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify everything photographed here at the Arduino mini-conference at LCA2012.

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LCA 2012: hacking all the shirts!

Well, this shirt, anyway. Jenna Downing turns one of the oversized LCA2012 T-shirts into a dress.

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LCA 2012: attack of the drones

Andrew Tridgell, best known for his role in developing the open-source Samba implementation of Microsoft's networking protocols, launches his semi-autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), one of the hardware-hacking highlights of LCA 2012.

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LCA 2012: NASA it ain't, popular it is

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LCA 2012: the dangers of flight

LCA 2012: preparing for lift-off

The Project Horus team prepares to launch one of their high-altitude balloons from Linux.conf.au. This particular balloon was a 100-gram envelope carrying a 50-gram payload that included GPS receiver, temperature sensors, and a telemetry transmitter controlled by a miniature Linux computer. The balloon reached an altitude of around 22,500 metres, and a speed of nearly 150 kilometres per hour before bursting and eventually falling into Port Phillip Bay. It was never recovered.

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LCA 2012: tl;dr

Some LCA2112 sessions were technical. Very technical. Too technical for some.

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LCA 2012: trust us; we're from the internet

These chaps kept the LCA2012 Wi-Fi network running smoothly for the entire week, with support from AARNet. Later, they may have been seen drinking.

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LCA 2012: shorter Jacob Appelbaum

Once you've seen this picture, you can skip Appelbaum's one-and-a-half-hour keynote presentation. Unless you want to, you know, learn anything.

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LCA 2012: organising team

The Linux.conf.au organising team receive a standing ovation in the conference's final session. And a telescope each. Linux.conf.au 2013 will be at the Australian National University in Canberra from 28 January to 2 February.

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