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  • The 2017 Hackaday Prize

    6,469 views 3 days ago
    Hackaday is calling for the curious, the creative, the determined. The Hackaday Prize is for creating for social change in order to transform the world. Using your hardware and programming knowledge on top of your scientific, design, and mechanical abilities, you will innovate to make an impact in peoples' lives.

    https://hackaday.io/prize

    Prizes total over $250,000:

    $120,000 goes to top 120 finalists ($1,000 each)
    $50,000 Grand Prize
    $30,000 Best Product Prize
    $20,000 2nd Place
    $15,000 3rd Place
    $10,000 4th Place
    $5,000 5th Place

    It's time to leverage your talent and find solutions to address a problem facing humanity today. Show less
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    • The 2017 Hackaday Prize - Duration: 114 seconds.

      • 3 days ago
      • 6,469 views
      Hackaday is calling for the curious, the creative, the determined. The Hackaday Prize is for creating for social change in order to transform the world. Using your hardware and programming knowledg...
    • Cutting Edge CubeSat Antenna Design - Duration: 21 minutes.

      • 1 month ago
      • 4,011 views
      Nacer Chahat is a microwave and antenna engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He recently sat down with Hackaday's Mike Szczys at the Supplyframe Design Lab to talk ...
    • Hacking my Truck with OBD-II - Duration: 19 minutes.

      • 1 month ago
      • 6,168 views
      I just need a wire that tells my GPS system how fast my truck is going, but it was missing from the OBD-II connector.

      This might block most people from finishing the project, but I know the speed ...
    • Steve Collins: When Things Go Wrong In Space - Duration: 59 minutes.

      • 2 months ago
      • 5,921 views
      Steve Collins is a regular around Hackaday. He's brought homebrew LIDARs to our regular meetups, he's given a talk on a lifetime's worth of hacking, and he is the owner of the most immaculate Hacka...
    • Sophi Kravitz: The State of Hackaday.io - Duration: 14 minutes.

      • 2 months ago
      • 2,206 views
      At the Hackaday SuperConference in November, Sophi Kravitz had the chance to look back on the past year of Hackaday.io, and what a great year it has been. Hackaday.io now has over 178k members who ...
    • Voja Antonic: Hacking the SuperConference Badge - Duration: 25 minutes.

      • 2 months ago
      • 2,990 views
      There are only a handful of people who can say they’ve built several successful electronic badges for conferences. Voja Antonic is not just on that list, he’s among the leaders in the field. There ...
    • CES2017: Which Internet of Thing is Best Internet of Thing? - Duration: 2 minutes, 7 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 3,836 views
      With apologies to Mr. Regular.

      Brian Benchoff finds the quirkiest of CES 2017. Read his roundup of the best (and worst) of this year's conference:

      http://hackaday.com/?p=239107
    • The Virtual Reality Revolution: Its History and Future - Duration: 43 minutes.

      • 2 months ago
      • 2,635 views
      [David Krum] is associate lab director at the Mixed Reality Lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies at USC. That puts him at the intersection of science and engineering: building cool virtua...
    • CES2017: Astrophotography In The Eyepiece - Duration: 4 minutes, 10 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 3,738 views
      Unistellar developed a device that makes every backyard scope a joy to use. Their digital eyepiece uses image stacking and other image processing techniques to produce incredible images right in th...
    • Lulzbot Unveils 1.2mm Extruder Nozzle - Duration: 2 minutes, 23 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 6,124 views
      Lulzbot really does have the best names for stuff. At CES they announced the MOARstruder, a 3D Printing nozzle that squeezes out a lot of melted plastic.

      Read the article:
      http://hackaday.com/?p=2...
    • Titan Robotics And Big 3D Prints - Duration: 95 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 27,041 views
      This large volumne 3D printer, called The Cronus, uses five print heads at once.

      Read the article:
      http://hackaday.com/?p=238825

      See all of Hackaday's coverage at CES 2017:
      http://hackaday.com/ta...
    • Dissolvable Filament From Airwolf 3D - Duration: 41 seconds.

      • 2 months ago
      • 3,007 views
      Friday at CES, Airwolf3D announced their new HydroFill product, a 3D printing filament which easily and quickly dissolves in water.

      Read the article:
      http://hackaday.com/?p=238801

      See all of Hack...
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    • Hacked portal gun actually levitates a companion cube - Duration: 103 seconds.

      • 4 years ago
      • 1,697,341 views
      hackaday hacks a prop portal gun to actually levitate a companion cube.
      http://wp.me/pk3lN-mPR

      I was out to lunch with a couple friends, brainstorming ideas for fun projects when one of them says...
    • DIY high voltage Thor's Hammer: Mjolnir at 80,000 volts - Duration: 114 seconds.

      • 3 years ago
      • 653,962 views
      I wanted Thor's hammer (Mjolnir), but I wasn't going to accept any old boring plastic prop. I needed something with a little more POP.

      I worked with Staci Elaan to build this hammer that has a so...
    • Top 10 real hacking videos - Duration: 5 minutes, 17 seconds.

      • 3 years ago
      • 408,176 views
      Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Here are the top 10 best videos about real hacking. We've already covered the absolute worst that hollywood has to offer, twice. Then, we did the best that holl...
    • Top 10 Movie Hack fails - Duration: 6 minutes, 24 seconds.

      • 3 years ago
      • 304,028 views
      Check out part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMCs8HSWoyQ

      The movie industry is nearly incapable of portraying hacking realistically. Here's our top 10 hacking fails in movies.




      Music by Kev...
    • 1-Pixel Pac-Man - Duration: 3 minutes, 49 seconds.

      • 1 year ago
      • 277,431 views
      What can you do with just 32x32 pixels? Why not write your own version of Pac-Man? The logic of the original coin-op game divided the board up into tiles that were 28x31 which works perfectly on th...
    • Home made 6 foot tall, fire breathing piranha plant from Super Mario Brothers - Duration: 2 minutes, 3 seconds.

      • 3 years ago
      • 263,159 views
      I always thought it would be cool to build a giant fire breathing piranha plant. I never really came up with an excuse to do it though. Eventually, I just decided I didn't really need an excuse, an...
    • real life Bugzapping light saber - Duration: 4 minutes, 11 seconds.

      • 4 years ago
      • 216,853 views
      http://hackaday.com/2012/06/18/building-a-bug-zapping-lig...
      Bug zapping light saber hack. Music by Kevin MacLeod
    • DIYDTG - Duration: 74 seconds.

      • 6 years ago
      • 212,976 views
      HackaDay Direct To Garment printer. The orange was a test print, as you can see if your platen isn't 100% flat and level relative to the head, you'll get some smudging and general print errors. The...
    • Rewinding a DC motor - Duration: 16 minutes.

      • 5 years ago
      • 161,592 views
      n this Hackaday.com original video, [Jack] points out the various parts of a DC motor and then explains how you can modify its torque/speed profile by rewinding it.

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    • Top 10 best hacks - Duration: 4 minutes, 53 seconds.

      • 3 years ago
      • 159,301 views
      Geeking out and complaining about inaccuracies is fun. But it is like junk food. Too much is bad for your health. We've done the Top 10 worst portrayals of hacking in movies/TV as well as a Part 2 ...
    • First 3d printed gun timelapse - Duration: 3 minutes, 53 seconds.

      • 3 years ago
      • 150,127 views
      Read the entire article with detailed pictures here: http://hackaday.com/2013/05/16/timelapse-of-the-3d-printe...

      Once the DoD requested the 3d printed gun files be removed from th...
    • Wrist Mounted Flamethrower - Duration: 2 minutes, 10 seconds.

      • 2 years ago
      • 145,567 views
      [Stephen] shows off his totally-not-a-ripoff of something from a comic book at Maker Faire. Read the post: http://wp.me/pk3lN-yGf
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