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Personally, I'd love any of the following: Arduino, Amarino, Hackable RC Helicopter, Kickstarter funding. Basically gifts as platforms to hack more.

Other is allowing these hacks to be shown to people whom we respect and get feedback. Eg: "What does Jack Dorsey think about my bit coin hack."

So I'm insanely fond of these cheapo RC helicopters. Syma S107Gs etc.

What about a hackathon ABOUT those helicopters? Everyone gets helicopters, there's lots of parts, and the winner does something cool?

A RC helicopter-hackathon is definitely. I could think of tons of things that could be built over these tiny ones.

I haven't yet tried RC helicopters, but I'd definitely start on one.

wow, interesting. how hackable are they?

They are pretty simplistic. Haven't tried to understand them.

One problem is that they are infrared and not radio.