Hackaday Prize 2016 is here, and you have no idea what project to do? Get inspired with this buzzword generator!

M.daSilva wrote 06/14/2016 at 12:47

NUCLEAR DRONE

Does slapping a block of Uranium 238 to a drone count?

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Stephen wrote 06/14/2016 at 10:18

I'm working on a "blinking 3d Printer" right now! But I can't find the right blinking stepper motors.

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Mechanical Advantage wrote 06/14/2016 at 05:28

BIO WEARABLE ENGINE.

I don't think I would survive the first prototype.

Or perhaps:

CRYPTO GLUE GUN.

Also another type of buzz.

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Stephen wrote 06/14/2016 at 05:20

I don't get a scrollbar so I can't see the result of pushing the button. Removing some blank lines at the top would help.

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davedarko wrote 06/14/2016 at 09:17

I checked the design against a display of 320x240 and see your problem. With what device are you checking this site?

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Stephen wrote 06/14/2016 at 10:10

HP mini, 1024X600, Win XP, FireFox. I don't know why some pages don't get a scrollbar when they need them... Duh, I just found the zoom option. Funny stuff. B-)

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davedarko wrote 06/14/2016 at 11:04

@Stephen - you can edit the css to remove all scrollbars on webpages and just cutoff the overlapping content. Makes no sense all the time, but in some cases it does.

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hotcheazytoes wrote 03/15/2016 at 22:35

MAGNETIC COFFEE.

how do i even

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berryelectronics wrote 03/15/2016 at 22:19

SELFDESTROYING WHEELCHAIR
Now THATS the stuff i like :D

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K.C. Lee wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:34

ARTSY DRINK

A very different kind of Buzz...

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Max Chmigelski wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:01

SUSTAINABLE COMPUTER WHEELCHAIR

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davedarko wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:50

I'll might replace "space ship" with the more generic word "rocket", but maybe there's a way to use radio active material as a propellant in space, like solar sails.

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PointyOintment wrote 03/18/2016 at 04:08

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_propulsion#Spacecraft

My favorites are the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb.

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Sophi Kravitz wrote 03/15/2016 at 20:14

INDUCTIVE SECURITY

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davedarko wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:48

Sounds like RFid and magnetic cards need some more protection, or you can check with a bog coil under your car if it's still there ;)

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Richard Hogben wrote 03/15/2016 at 19:25

PORTABLE LOCKPICKING MICROCONTROLLER

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Leonard wrote 03/15/2016 at 17:36

"automated led", I must say I am inspired! :) Could you import a medical dictionary perhaps, to make it more advanced?

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davedarko wrote 03/15/2016 at 19:03

that would shift it massively to being all medical... it would be interesting though to select some topics or themes first.

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Leonard wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:36

Maybe the words syringe and drug will suffice. Thanks tho for your web app, I had a good laugh :)

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davedarko wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:46

those will go in :) thanks - I had some fun with it too :)

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smithad wrote 03/15/2016 at 09:01

Well I got "hydroponic magic smoke", which I'm pretty sure I was very well acquainted with back in high school :)

Perhaps I'll try again...

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davedarko wrote 03/15/2016 at 21:54

you need to clarify what you're about to try again though - the magic smoke or the generator? ;)

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PointyOintment wrote 03/15/2016 at 03:12

Now (after you added some more buzzwords) I'm getting 5–10% things that I find not only obvious, but the only obvious words to relate to each other, which I don't remember getting before. For example: "downloading Linux", "interactive cellphone", "mechanical wheelchair". In other words, the adjectives are obvious and conventional adjectives to pair with those nouns, not so good for generating new ideas. Unfortunately, I have no good idea for how to fix this. (My one bad idea is to search the web and if a bunch of results come up, it's not novel, but that would be slow and CPU- and bandwidth-intensive.)

On the other hand: a UNIVERSAL SUPERCAPACITOR would be nice!

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