Make contact. Unscrambled circles will get you there:
hackaday.io/_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Across:
- 3: this is what project #164913 is all about
- 5: dressed in stripes of BBROYGBVGW
- 8: I go clack and have an electromagnet
- 11: the brain of the circuit
- 13: one of the smallest dev boards -- it's right there in the name
- 15: I was a rocket fuel mixologist
- 16: a place on Hackaday.IO where anything goes
- 18: you're not a gargoyle without this
- 21: to use a heat gun, vacuum pump, or copper braid
- 22: the act of making sound unlike any other
- 24: a holdfast while soldering
- 26: prove you're not a robot
- 28: male, female, right-angle, or box
- 30: C-type, S-type, or M-type space rocks
- 31: an early electrostatic generator
- 33: sonic ______, a highly versatile tool
- 34: a component that conducts current primarily in one direction
- 35: not a feature
- 36: I was a cryptomaniac before it was cool
- 37: the first component in project #176547
- 40: Estes, NASA, or SpaceX
- 43: for everything else, there's
- 46: better than your teeth or a utilty knife
- 48: the cutest little computers, briefly
- 51: comparable to water pressure
- 55: Project list #3611
- 56: software substitute for hardware in embedded systems
- 57: electromagnetic communication technology
- 58: you can build one of these six-sided orbiters for less than $1000 these days
- 59: this special diode allows current to flow backward under certain conditions
- 63: formerly Wolfram
- 64: don't let me out
- 66: I created the polio vaccine
- 67: ... --- ...
- 70: 24 caffeine-fueled hours of mayhem and fun
- 71: many circuits begin here, some never leave
- 73: confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- 75: I hold a charge
- 76: these transforms helped a Billy Bass become Alexa in project #73048
- 78: a keyboard that does your bidding
- 81: only the best logo ever
- 82: sweet, sweet square waves
- 83: this type of resistor needs a place in the sun
- 84: to hide secret messages in plain sight
- 85: refracting, Newtonian, or Schmidt-Cassegrain
- 86: I measure things inside and out
- 87: use these after soldering
- 88: I keep things cool
Down:
- 1: electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern AC supply system
- 2: spin me around to pump up the volume
- 3: use a blue box for this
- 4: SAOs are a big part of this
- 6: an open-source keyboard firmware
- 7: this lights up project #179361
- 9: sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name
- 10: this project won the 2019 HaD Prize
- 12: preferred drink of thirsty, mostly European hackers
- 14: QWERTY, AOEUIDHTNS, split, ergonomic, mechanical
- 17: fruits of the keyboard
- 19: project #176246 uses 26 of them
- 20: Tesla founder or semiaquatic rodent
- 23: tfeed me or you'll have to start over
- 24: there are 10 types of people in the world
- 25: HTTPS, TCP/IP, FTP
- 27: to use something for a purpose not originally intended
- 29: this project won the 2020 HaD Prize
- 32: to understand this, one must first understand this
- 38: this guy had principles
- 39: humanity's home in orbit
- 41: this strange phenomenon happens to strawberries, daisies, and more
- 42: what type of bot featured in project #7792 was written in Energia?
- 44: I know how hot your printer bed is
- 45: absorbent way to desolder
- 47: yes or no, high or low
- 49: some of us use a lighter, some a heat gun
- 50: because they're not all drones
- 52: leaded or unleaded
- 53: Dalibor Farny is the king of these cold cathode displays
- 54: 3D creation suite or smoothie tool
- 58: don't PANIC; negative is _______
- 60: developed in 1969, now standardized as IETF
- 61: this tape can take the heat
- 62: these make blinkenlight
- 65: focus of HackadayU course by Uri Shaked
- 68: name this miniature Nintendo homage
- 69: PLA, PETG, ABS
- 72: the big name in low-power, open-source, single-board computers
- 74: Cura, for example
- 77: V=IR
- 79: they have various purposes, like passing the butter
- 80: with solder or capacitor, McFly
- 84: modern gateway to ham radio, briefly
I'm not sure if all that's to do is fill out the crossword correctly, it does say 'more than a crossword' on the had.io main page.
So I tried out several things so far but to no avail. Is it cheating or spoiling or confusing to others if I start discussing this here before the "contest" is over?