Comments on: History Hacker show pilot tonight

By: mike

mike — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:25:41 +0000

Dude – I’m watching right now – we’re about half-way through. I LOVE TESLA. This is a sweet presentation. I can’t take my eyes off the screen. GIVE US MORE EPISODES! PLEASE!?!?!

By: Tesla Fan 75

Tesla Fan 75 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:28 +0000

Neon tubes may be lame to some but back in Teslas day it was unknown and very unreal to all. We today take many things for granted…just think of it…without tesla las vegas would be quite dull at night and many edison bulbs would have to be replaced often! Also I think the show ended with me wanting to see and know more…which maybe could be a reason for people to call, and write in requesting more..Maybe it was designed to get a response…lets let them know we what more! Does the History channel read any of these posts?

By: Tesla Fan 75

Tesla Fan 75 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:25:38 +0000

The world needs to open their eyes and see the truth that is suppressed by greed.

By: Tesla Fan 75

Tesla Fan 75 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:23:47 +0000

For those of you who think that this shiow was weak must like suppression in the world. Nikola Tesla has been hidden from history books because of big money and greed based corporations. I am glad to see more of Tesla’s genius being shed light on. Tesla was not about money he was about the betterment of humanity. In his own words…….’Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the netterment of humanity’…Nikola Tesla 1919… Yes Edison was a great inventor but he was more greed based and cared only of fame and fortune. Tesla will always be more of a man to me. By the way cell phones, radio, as well as many other before his time tech was invented and thought up by Nikola Tesla…Why do history books not mention that?

By: samuel hancock

samuel hancock — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:52:04 +0000

I caught this without any warning and was pleasantly surprised. Took me a minute to recognize who Bre was since I used to watch the Make shorts on youtube. I always love shows where they talk about how things work, even better if they make something out of it!

By: yh

yh — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:35:47 +0000

downloaded the show yesterday and I have to say its pretty good. Some of facts were a bit questionable… but nothing that would get in the way of the show. Bre has done a great job evolving from his Makezine position to doing a national pilot, and I think if History Channel picks this up it’ll be a great program. For me, some of neatest parts were the animated sections. I loved the style of the artwork.

By: forrest

forrest — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:41:54 +0000

Great show. I’ve done some research on Tesla, so I knew most of the history – but didn’t know about his obsession with the number 3. Hope the network picks up the show.

By: WutanG

WutanG — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:19:01 +0000

It was a great show! Kind of thought the 40 neon tubes hack was kind of lame though. This show is definitely a keeper. There should be enough ideas to keep this show in business for quite a while.

By: hacker711

hacker711 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:50:34 +0000

cool

By: vector1

vector1 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:30:48 +0000

@ hussar
re: above comment ^^

i like the show concept, the host is good and very geeky lol. i have to agree though, that the cinematography is lacking something… the scenes like Bre in the power plant were kind of hard to follow. I lost him completely in one of the shots and was wondering if the cable a/v had desynchronized, when he was back on camera and I was like… ok whatever… and he looked like he was about to eat the wall on the skateboard after leaving the glass shop LOL could have reshot that :)

The scene lighting didn’t always highlight the subject the viewer should have been paying attention to, and the white room ‘matrix’ style workshop is a neat idea but i think you will find it limiting later on as there’s only so much you can do with a camera in a white room.

Yes, its a pilot :P sorry, it is really good and I think it will hit the mainstream market pretty well, it got my interest enough to watch it the first and second time they aired it lastnight. Good work, and good luck. I’m pretty sure a good chunk of the hacker community will support this in any way possible, let us know if there’s anything we can do. With programming these days lacking any kind of intelligence and open-mindedness, I don’t think any of us want to see this show fail. The executives will further dumbify (yes, not a word :P) future programming if shows like this constantly bomb.

By: CiricTech

CiricTech — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:47:10 +0000

I thought the show was interesting, that being said I did find it lacked a certain amount of basic explanation in some areas and then in others it went to deep. As for the projects I did like the glass blowing but the ending was kinda lame. All that being said I do think that producing a show about hardware hacking for the general public is not an easy task and they have done a good job. I also did not like the all white work space it lacked a certain amount of depth. If possible nix the jumping around and the odd camera views it makes it very hard to follow the show and takes away from the projects.

Keep up the good work and hack on.

Ciric Tech

By: jammit

jammit — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:24:11 +0000

I saw it and I liked it. It was pretty good.

By: JimXugle

JimXugle — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:08:17 +0000

great content! I think “hack” should be changed out for “make” though.

By: Yoshi

Yoshi — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:01:36 +0000

Just a kind reminder, it was just a pilot episode. I’m sure WHEN (when, not if) it gets picked up, they’ll make it more… scientific? But as a pilot, it kinda has to appeal to as many people as possible just so it will get picked up. Once it has, I’m sure there will be the much-desired improvements.

By: hussar

hussar — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:34:25 +0000

nice!
I like that
If the show gets picked, that’s a great way to set up and shoot his hacking DIY
thank you!