We spotted [Segfault]’s new tattoo on a fast failing bird app a few days ago. We thought it was nice looking piece of skin art, but without a write up couldn’t cover it. The bearer of the tattoo pointed us to this blog post about the tattoo, and now we really like it.
It’s fun on it’s own, but when you start staring at it you realize it’s full of hidden jokes and meanings. If you like puzzles, go hunting for them before you read the blog post. We also liked the reminiscence about [Segfault]’s early electronics experimentation days, and how the 555 timer IC figured prominently in them.
We’ve not covered a lot of tattoos here at Hackaday. Mostly we cover the technology behind skin fused or embedded hacks. But occasionally some tattoo art catches our eye, as it did in this interesting barcode tattoo.
Cool for them but bodyhacking and tattoos make me uncomfortable and get mixed feelings :(
You’re not alone. Clothing, bumper stickers, flags, and wristbands are all great ways to show that you are a hacker. Why does it have to be permanently etched into your body?
Everyone thinks they won’t regret it, but you never know what your future holds.
The whole point for many people is that it’s permanent. You can throw all those other things away. A tattoo is a commitment.
Loosing a foot is permanent too, but no one would want to. So I don’t understand how this is a good point.
My last tattoo was circuit traces down my left arm
I’ve got inches down my left index finger and cm down my right. The only thing that bugs me about it is that I waited 20 years to get it.
I wonder what’s the meaning of 1.340 kHz to this guy.
From the linked article: 1337 Hz (aka elite)
It’s 1337Hz according to the blog post.
I would have personally gone for E96 resistor/capacitor values but it might have been difficult to get to the desired frequency this way.
It would have been much harder to get the desired duty cycle that way too. He wanted a 58% duty cycle so that after the inverter, he got 42.
I’m missing the Layout-Tatoo… ;-)
It’s missing the Forrest Mims notebook paper ruling.
In my opinion 2600Hz would’ve been hackier. More hacky? Hackerer? Less leet, more Cap’n Crunch ;)
Spotted the real hacker! Phone phreaking is almost forgotten these days.
“would’ve been hackier. More hacky? Hackerer?”
That’s the spirit! (Hacking the language)
B^)
With the circuit in a phone booth?
Well times do change. 2600 is USA-centric, and from a previous generation. 1337 is also from a previous generation but more recent and from internet culture. I don’t know what’s current in young hacker circles, probably not even a number. Maybe in 20 years someone will get a tattoo of a RPi pico printing out a hashtag.
Current generation (at least in Poland) will cherish “2137” number. This may sound absurd but that’s they’re way of honouring our Pope John Paul II which died on 21:37.
Could have been a bit awkaward to choose that freq…
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/more-men-accuse-proto-hacker-capn-crunch-of-inappropriate
“Fast failing bird app …” – stop it, get some help.
That reference whooshed right over me.
To avoid confusion, I think it’s a specific reference to the one where the owner thinks that if they mash the keyboard hard enough it will stay in the air.
Bingo.
hard agree
Really? AFAICT, Twitter is booming: more users and the app has gotten faster, seems like some memory leaks were probably plugged as well.
With some conductive ink, you could make a working circuit.
And connect to an Rpi implant:
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/29/pegleg-raspberry-pi-implanted-below-the-skin-not-coming-to-a-store-near-you/
Would you really want to use something running on an SD card?? This seems like a job for perhaps a ROM and lots of RAM to me – ever really runs out of power the RAM can be reflashed from the outside, and the read endurance of ROM chips means its probably going to outlive the muppet putting it…
An SD card even with the best will in the world is going to fail in relatively short time.
Don’t read leet. Didn’t get it.
T-shirts I thought were cool and nerdy in 2010s now look incredibly lame. Fortunately I can just throw them away.
And then in the 2040s you’ll be saying … “if only I kept those tshirts!”
I’ll just embed a 555 into my arm. I’ve done it before, when I stepped on ICs.
Really, NE555, why limit your operating temprature from 0C to 70C?
Why does everyone calling it the Bird App? Scared to say Twitter?
Not scared. They just don’t want to 1. Give the current owner any more attention 2. Have the discussion derail
No decoupling cap?
>fast failing
hackaday confirmed for MSM shilling
I’ve had a “Kali” logo tattoo since BT4 was released.
Clothing, bumper stickers, flags, and wristbands are all great ways to show that you are emotionally stunted and cannot conceive of people wanting different things than you. Why does it have to be permanently etched into this website’s comments?
Everyone thinks they won’t regret it, but you never know what your future holds.