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aleksandar-bradicAleksandar Bradic 11/29/2017 at 17:1515 Comments

Simon Merett had a great idea of creating a "request list" feature, where people could submit ideas/topic proposals for white papers to be written on. It could also be an opportunity for teams to be formed and write the paper jointly. So we'll use this page as the "master request/idea list."  Feel free to submit your ideas directly to the comments on this post or edit the post itself if you're a project member  (just make sure to retain this header).

HJWYDK Paper Request / Idea List 

  1. How to DIY Laser Direct Structuring - PCBs that contour your 3D print or painted object. (suggested by Simon Merett)
  2. Garden Hacks Citizen Science: How variations in conditions affects growth and yield (suggestion by Peter Walsh)
  3. How to DIY capacitive linear displacement sensors (aka digital calliper) - Signal generation and treatment -  math and heuristics involved. (suggestion by oxomoxo)

Discussions

M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 17:16 point

Can the Collatz conjuncture be used for a public-key cryptosystem?

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 17:09 point

Determine Kepler's laws of planetary motion experimentally by observing the four biggest moons of Jupiter...

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 17:04 point

Development of environmentally friendly rocket fuel

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 16:54 point

How to create homemade Penicillin, including analysis and purification

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 16:50 point

Development of new synthesis pathways of essential medicines, which are on the WHO Model List

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 16:47 point

How to build a ethanol fuel cell with commonly available materials and chemicals

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 16:37 point

Mercury beating heart without using Mercury - use a Polymer or another organic compound instead. Describe the chemical or electrochemical oscillator chemically and mathematically

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M. Bindhammer wrote 12/26/2017 at 16:14 point

How to DIY the Miller-Urey Origin Of Life Experiment - how to make the experiment more safe as the experiment involves exposing inflammable gases, e.g. use a UV laser instead of high voltage electric discharge.

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oxomoxo wrote 12/06/2017 at 01:30 point

How to DIY capacitive linear displacement sensors (aka digital calliper) - Signal generation and treatment -  math and heuristics involved.

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Simon Merrett wrote 12/19/2017 at 09:17 point

Absolutely massive +1!

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Peter Walsh wrote 12/04/2017 at 01:16 point

There have been a lot of agro hacks and automated gardens and indoor gardens and such.

There's actually a lot of subtlety in scientific gardening. I found out recently that plants use the red light from sunset as a signal to go into "night mode", triggering simple respiration or dormant mode (depending on the plant). Gardeners are experimenting with 18-hours of sunlight, followed by a high dose of red light to put the plants into night mode faster.

It would be interesting to get original research by hobbyists describing how variations in conditions affects growth and yield.

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Sophi Kravitz wrote 12/19/2017 at 13:13 point

+1

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Daniel S. wrote 12/04/2017 at 00:18 point

When you say "this page" do you mean this comments section I am currently in, or the HJWYDK project page?

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Aleksandar Bradic wrote 12/16/2017 at 19:27 point

Apologies for the confusion. I meant this comments section.

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Simon Merrett wrote 11/30/2017 at 02:01 point

Hooray!

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