Syscall

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Ship your first real systems project — and earn the hardware grant to build the next one.

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HARDWARE

Build something close to the metal — a tiny HTTP server, a binary parser, a toy shell, or a steganography tool. Track your hours in Hackatime and ship it open-source.

Apply now Requirements

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Pick a systems project

Anything close to the metal: a tiny HTTP server, a binary parser, a toy shell, or a steganography tool. If you'd be excited to talk about it, it counts.

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Track your time

Connect your editor to Hackatime so reviewers can see the hours behind the repo, not just the final commit.

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Build it in the open

Your project has to be open-source. Push it to a public repo on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, or wherever you host code.

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Make it runnable

Record a short demo video or write a README that walks someone through building and running it. Reviewers must be able to try it.

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Spend the grant

Once you're approved, we send a hardware grant. Devboards, debug probes, multimeters, oscilloscopes — what you order is up to you.

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Approved Syscall projects show up in this feed with a link to the repo and the demo. Yours could be the first one this cohort.

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Memory & Pointers

Allocate, free, and reason about raw memory without leaking it.

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File I/O

Read and write bytes, manage file descriptors, handle real OS errors.

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Networking

Open a TCP socket and send a request without a library doing it for you.

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Binary Formats

Parse a real file format byte by byte instead of relying on a wrapper.

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Concurrency

Run work in parallel and learn what goes wrong when it shares state.

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Hardware

Talk to a board, read a sensor, drive a pin — get past the OS abstraction.

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Debugging

Drop into a debugger, read a stack trace, follow a crash to its source.

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C & Zig

Write idiomatic C or Zig — not transliterated Python.

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Who can join Syscall?

Anyone aged 13 to 18, from any country. Syscall is a global initiative for teenage hackers. Syscall is free to participate in and open to everyone within the age range, globally.

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Do I need prior systems experience?

No. You should be comfortable writing code in some language, but you don't need prior C or Zig experience — picking it up is the point.

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Does it have to be C or Zig?

Yes. To ensure a focused experience with memory and the OS, only C and Zig projects are eligible for this program.

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What are the requirements?

A working systems project on GitHub, with time tracked in Hackatime and either a short demo video or a README that explains how to build it.

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What is the hardware grant?

Once approved, you get a grant for devboards, multimeters, oscilloscopes, or other systems gear of your choice.

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