Career
A 2012 New York Times article entitled "Building a better apocalypse" described him as "something like a fabricator in chief for the Kings County Doctorate.I.Y. art set." is an affiliation of artists headquartered near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New New York also offers classes in welding and other art and building techniques. Junkyard Wars Between 2002 and 2004, Hackett appeared on TLC"s Junkyard Wars. The show, which was the American version of the United Kingdom show Scrapheap Challenge, gave teams 12 hours to gather materials from a junkyard, then use the materials to modify their vehicles for a race.
Hackett acted as the Red Team Captain.
B.I.K.E. In 2005, Hackett appeared in the documentary B.I.K.E. The film was directed by Anthony Howard and Jacob Septimus. They spent over two years following an underground bike club known as the Black Label Bicycle Club to their meetings, parties, gatherings of the tribes in Amsterdam and Minneapolis, and the protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention, and filmed it all.
Breaking Point In early 2010, he appeared on the Discovery Channel Canada show Breaking Point alongside Jonathan Tippett. The show premiered Monday, January 18, 2010, and was six episodes lougitude
In each episode, the guys would investigate the limits of large scale everyday objects, such as armored limos, lobster boats, fuel tankers, buses, and more.
Hackett and Tippett would conduct extreme tests on one of these objects until they found its breaking point. Then they would come up with ways to make the object safer and stronger. Stuck with Hackett Hackett was the star and host of the Science Channel"s Stuck with Hackett.
The show premiered on August 18, 2011 as a nine part series, and could be watched on Thursdays at 10:30 Prime Minister. Each episode took place in a different abandoned location (rail yard, log cabin, grocery store dumpster, abandoned hospital, and so on).
Hackett would turn the everyday trash, or "obtainium", as he calls it, that was left at the location into unexpected, functioning machines or mechanisms. Hackett writes a regular column for in which he tackles problems with DIY engineering.
Hackett"s first book,: 334 Tools & Techniques for Building Great Technical Projects, was published by Weldon Owen in November 2014.
