@ Poster: THOSE ARE KNEX, NOT LEGOS!!!

my vote for today: Mike Szczys

I’m sure that most of us can attest that we were doing this kind of ‘hack’ since we were old enough to speak. I think I’ll be spending more time off the net and at the workbench. This has gone beyond forgivable.

Personally though, lower case forcing, black and white pictures, and one hack a day, are un-needed. Black and white pictures have a certain artistic value, but the site isn’t impacted one way or the other over it. Lower case comments is just a gimmic.

Limited hacks per day though, that could be a good idea. I’m too much of an information junkie to want only one tidbit each day. That’s honestly why I didn’t visit the site much before RSS. With only one post per day, I could catch up on months of the site updates in 30 min and I wouldn’t need to come back for months again. Of course the occasional hack would catch my interest and provide another 30 min of reading, but for the most part the site didn’t have much content so I forgot about it.

Maybe just a limit of how many posts per day… or at certain times. Like 2 updates a day, midnight and noon. That will help store up content for more days and allow editors to filter some things out… like Lego devices that don’t even DO anything except sit there.

To ME, the definition of Hack-a-day is a site that shows people taking existing things and making them do things they were not designed to do. A brand new project with an Arduino controlling it can be cool, but it’s certainly not a ‘hack’. The Arduino was designed precisely to do such things. It is not outside of design specs to make a machine like that.

Now, if you yank your neighbor’s car engine and mount it outside your house as a generator to power your computer… maybe we’d all like to laugh at that. At least it’s really in the ballpark of ‘hack’.

Slow your roll, take a deep breath, and make your goal to capture at least some of what we all love about hack-a-day. Fewer, high-quality updates will keep us around for a long time. Publishing 100 updates a week full of junk like this one will destroy your base, and even the fluff that like this kind of thing will fade away when you start posting “Two lego bricks connected at an angle to form a stand for your pen!” Detailed write-up: Brick one snapped into brick two and Viola! Pen holder!

/rant

Speaking of which, the article on that was the last B/W image.

Look: http://hackaday.com/2009/09/04/farewell-hack-a-day/

Side note: Which is ironic, The time I started commenting regularly was when HackaDay turned five, although I’ve been a regular visitor since this site was still new and shiny.

Mike, I thought you were a bit slow with the telephone article; but that was forgivable. This… this is just abhorrent to anything resembling a hack. I hate using memes but this one is quite fitting for you “Never Go Full Retard”. Even that bit of wisdom, I fear, is casting pearls before swine.

I have to concur that posting a Lego iphone holder does no constitute a hack of any sort (it doesn’t even have a dock facility!).

Get this article deleted, it has no point being here.

actually sums up the state of this site PERFECTLY.

R.I.P.