How to be a Hacker

So you’re finally doing it. You’re getting yourself out of the house on a weekend and going to your very first Major League Hacking hackathon. Congratulations!

Howdy Hackers! I’m Maria, and I currently work as a Hackathon Community Manager at Major League Hacking (MLH) working with hackathon organizers around the globe to help them make their events...

For some people, learning how to “network” tends to feels like learning a different language. The idea of the whole process might feel mysterious, like some elusive checklist with a hundred resumes to...

Learn how to solder with Xyla Foxlin from Beauty and the Bolt, an awesome MLH student hacker, entrepreneur, and mentor.     Ever wanted to wield an extremely metal point with the precision of...

Last month, we announced the winner of the Fall semester Watch_Dogs® 2 CTF challenge and taught you how to solve Level 1 of the CTF, Miss Marple. If you haven’t yet had a chance to try out the challenges,...

This fall, thousands of student hackers learned cybersecurity skills in a Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge inspired by Watch_Dogs® 2. Watch_Dogs® 2 is a brand new game from Ubisoft that follows the story of...

This tutorial will explain how to get the Oculus Rift consumer version working with Unity as of April 9, 2016.   At Bitcamp, we kicked off our new partnership with Oculus to distribute the brand new...

This post is syndicated from Freddie Lindsey's Blog Who? This post is for people who have static websites they want to deploy and have running efficiently across multiple continents. It assumes only a...

What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series that examines the gear hackers bring with them to hackathons. For this installment, we peek inside Kevin Lewis’ messenger bag. Kevin is a JavaScript...

This post is an op-ed from Stef Cohen, an engineering student at the University of Maryland. You might know her as the girl with the paint from Bitcamp. Keep an eye out for Stef’s Art Hack tutorials! Like...