![]() ![]() For his World Create Day Project, made a laser cutter more secure. And for some reason, most of the cheap laser cutters out there come without safety interlocks if you can believe it. You’ll shoot your eye out, kid! Or at least you stand a decent chance of suffering irreversible eye damage if you’re running a laser cutter with the lid open. Making Laser Cutters Safe And Soldering Keychains Governments and utility companies have spent billions of dollars developing ‘smart’ electricity meters, but a few ‘hackers’ have created their own in just hours! It’s almost as if that ‘hacker’ title isn’t bad at all, and being a ‘hacker’ is a good thing! In reality this is just a photosensor taped to their power meter, but they’ve hooked everything up to a Raspberry Pi, giving them the ability to monitor electricity consumption over the Internet. While the Tschunk Slushies were mixing up, the team at the Jena Hackerspace set to work on their World Create Day project, an interface that logs their electricity usage. ![]() For their World Create Day adventures, they made Tschunk Slushies! What is Tschunk? It’s rum and Club Mate, the definitive hacker drink! You might even say the addition of ethanol made it even more of a hacker drink. You might think that mixing alcohol and electronics might be dangerous, but not the people of kraut space, the hackerspace in Jena, Germany. That’s an order of magnitude of cost reduction that Builds Hope for the future. ![]() The LipSync was an entry into the 2016 Hackaday Prize, and while it didn’t win the grand prize, it did bring a device that usually costs $3,000 down to about $300. This is important because an estimated one million people in Canada and the United States have limited or no use of their arms, rendering touchscreens inoperable. The idea behind the LipSync is to give wheelchair-bound people access to computers. A LipSync is a mouth-operated joystick that allows a person to control a cursor on a computer with a minimum amount of head and neck movement. They created custom video game controllers, prototyped a few exoskeleton arms, and repaired LipSyncs. The theme of this year’s Hackaday Prize is to Build Hope, and students in Burnaby, British Columbia worked on some very cool projects that did just that. We had hackerspaces from Portland to Pakistan taking part, and these are just a few of the amazing hacks they pulled off. This was an experiment to bring community shops and workspaces together to prototype their entries for the Hackaday Prize, and boy was it a success. World Create Day organized hundreds of hackerspaces around the world to come together and Build Hope for the future. For this year’s Hackaday Prize, we started an amazing experiment. ![]()
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