BURST

a showcase of student-made creative technical projects

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Patti & Rusty Rueff Galleries

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WHAT IS THIS?

BURST ✷ is a 4-hour pop-up gallery exhibition of creative technical projects, run by Purdue Hackers.

For 2 years, students in Purdue Hackers have been developing wacky, cutting-edge projects at Hack Night, our all-night hacker festival every Friday—but none have been seen by anyone outside Hack Night.

On Sunday, December 8th, we’re installing these creations in the Rueff Galleries on campus in a first-of-its-kind exhibition for the broader campus community. They’ll only be up for 4 hours, then never all in the same room again. Blink and you’ll miss it.

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FEATURED WORKS

Passports
Community
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Handmade, faux-leather–bound booklets with embedded NFC chips. Official IDs for the Republic of Hackerland.
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Phone Bell
Hazel Roeder
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A rotary phone that rings the doorbell to Hack Night by calling a second phone inside.
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The Sign
Jack Hogan
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A meter-tall Conway glider that lights up according to a color representation of the current time.
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ETea
Jadden Picardal, Saahil Aneja, Alicia Zhou, Mason Graves
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A video game following the journey of an alien bobarista far from home.
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Vine Script
Ayden Bridges
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A spoken language with a writing system consisting of vines with leaves & berries.
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Door Opener
Hazel Roeder
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A device that reads NFC data from a scanned passport & opens the door to Hack Night.
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Badges
Community
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Colorful, laser-cut collectibles made & distributed at Hack Night every week.
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Awestruck Printer
Hazel Roeder
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A receipt printer that continuously prints data from the other installations onto an increasingly large pile on the floor.
keymashd
Kartavya Vashishtha
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A livestream whose packets are controlled by a typing test. The slower you type, the more packets get dropped.
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