BornHack (a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsBornholm Bornholm () is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland. Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. It has usually been ruled by ...

and

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) is an annual hacker camp on the Danish island of

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as o ...

, near

Gelsted Gelsted is a small town and parish in northwestern Funen, Denmark. Gelsted is located roughly halfway between Ejby and Aarup, 28 kilometers west of Odense. The parish is located in Middelfart Municipality, and a small portion is located in A ...

. From 2016 to 2018, it was organized on Bornholm. Bornhack2021-08-24

History

In 2021, the BornHack electronic badge was based on a

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due to the

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. The 2021 camp was also captured on

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arial pictures. In 2022, Thomas Flummer developed a badge based on the

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, for which software can be developed in

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. During BornHack there is a field specifically designed for loud

noise Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...

, with a

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made from

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. A Dutch hacker brought an old

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for testing purposes. Within a few minutes, four separate phone calls were made from houses in a large distance from BornHack to the

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