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A portable Yagi antenna for working amateur radio satellites

WA5VJB ultra portable dual VHF/UHF Yagi

Hackaday Prize 2019

Creating a free & open source global IoT network, democratizing access to space by miniaturizing aerospace systems.

FossaSat-1, Open Source Satellite

Julian Fernandez

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

Zn-Cu stomach acid based bio-galvanic cell powers a hacked activity tracker small enough to swallow and reconfigured as a 'smart pill'.

Stomach Acid Powered Smart Pill

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

Arduino-based heaband that uses haptic feedback to navigate blind people. Controlled via Bluetooth using Android app.

Ariadne Headband

Vojtech Pavlovsky

Mini blimp flies through hoops! Features 3 DC motors/ propellers, battery charging, and wireless communication.

Remote Control Mini Blimp!

Put your Verilog on real hardware, real cheap

FPGA Bootcamp #3

Voice Controlled Personal Assistant robot to help you stay lazy using Raspberry Pi and Amazon Alexa

Dobby - DIY Voice Controlled Personal Assistant

Take an small robotic arm (MeArm) and a dev board with more processing power than necessary (Jetson TX2). What could go possibly go wrong?

Ty the Typing Robot

This Rover uses the power of ESP32 to control itself from a PC/Android Station. The Rover can be in Manual / Lane (or Object) tracking mode.

Remote ESP32 Rover (with Object/Lane Tracking)

TIRO (Time is Running Out) is a watch that vibrates every few minutes to remind the user that time in this world is quickly running out.

TIRO Vibrating Watch

AccidentalRebel

Re purposing a propriety rf remote control for maximum laziness

IoT Ceiling Light/Fan with ESP8266

Dominic Dominic

96x96 pixels, 8 buttons, a speaker, and 1K operations.

1K-OP

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

Tiny robot for Hacking and EdTech.

Skoobot

YES, naturally my owning MCU has OLED display.

tiny BLE board with OLED

Middle school project to create a harp where the strings are laser beams. Learning about circuits, CAD, and computer programming.

Laser Harp (CNC, Pi zero)

21 Silicon Wafers, the kinds used to make computer chips, arranged on laser-cut acrylic & held in place with 3D-printed Stargate Chevrons

Silicon Wafer Wall Artwork

RIUM+ (Mike Ando) RIUM+ (Mike Ando)

ESP32 with mpu6500, bmp280, qmc5883 and OLED display.

ESP Handheld IMU

ESP8266 reed switch based fridge alarm with Google home notification

Google home fridge alarm

A dime sized (9mm radius) ESP32 Wifi/Bluetooth 4.2 coin.

FemtoBeacon ESP32 coin

The 25 year battle to get fresh air in tiny apartments

Apartment ventilation system

lion mclionhead

X60s is a near-perfect laptop chassis for mobility. I will be retrofitting a modern laptop motherboard to modernize this machine

X60s (2020) ThinkPad