Those of you who are in the travelling hackerbox chatroom often know this post has been a long time coming.

The first travelling hacker box has been stolen. It was stolen by a jackass in Georgia. There are exactly three people who know who stole the travelling hacker box: Benchoff, the guy who shipped it to the jackass, and the jackass himself.

A retrospective of the first travelling hacker box

The first travelling hacker box travelled to the following places, in order:

• Philadelphia, PA
• Bay Area, CA
• Cape Cod, MA
• Seattle, WA
• Long Island, NY
• Middle of, TX
• Cape Cod, Again
• Some jerk's house in Georgia.

The total distance traveled given by a great circle calculator was 14167 miles. That's over half the distance of what I wanted to cover before going internationally. Oh well. Now we know to vet people more carefully before dispatching the box to them.

A NEW BOX APPEARS

Let's not forget the old travelling hacker box had problems. It was, after all, an ill-fitting horror freight case stuffed inside a USPS flat rate box. There was wasted space. This problem has been solved with the Travelling Hacker Box Mk. 2.

Lloyd T Cannon III has solved the problem of wasted space by reinforcing a USPS flat rate box with 'kevlar' and 'custard'. We can only hope by 'custard' he means 'epoxy'. The new travelling hacker box is built around a medium flat-rate box. This will ultimately be cheaper to send, while still providing the structural rigidity required of tens of thousands of miles of travel.

Right now the Mk. 2 box is travelling from Lloyd to hackaday's own Sophi in upstate NY. This is a total of 1584 miles.

Over the next few days, I'm going to do the route planning for the first 25000 miles. The plan is still the same: go around the circumference of the Earth while still enjoying USPS flat rate boxes. After that, we hit Europe, Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world.