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shdsg16 SCIENCE HACK DAY  2016
11th -12th November
Suntec Convention Centre, Hall 401 & 402  

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AVAILABLE TOOLS
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Hi all, please bring in your own tools and material for your hack. We have a list of shared items below, do feel free to make use of them. 
 
 
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HACK IDEAS
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Hi all, please add your ideas, offers or requests below. Read those from others, add your name and contact under the project you would like to join. 
There is plenty of spaces at the bottom, please feel free to take them. 
 
Team 1 Portable large format foam/paper digital cutter 
DESCRIPTION: A A1 size paper or foam  digital cutter system, that is easy to store, transport and deploy. Such a device will provide hobbyist, artist and maker with the capability to build large projects (such as fixed wing RC aeroplane and sculptures) cost effectively.
 
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1) CNC building skill  (e.g 3D printer)
2)  arduino, CNC shield, Steeper motor drivers
3) Steeper motors x 2 (X &Y ) minimum
4) limit switches
5) PSU 12V >5A
6) GT2 belts, pulleys, idlers
7) linear rails (1000mm x 2, 500-600mm x 2), linear blocks (if necessary)
8) electrical wires
9) zip ties
10) laptop (for firmware modifications and control)
11) choice of cutting head as the machine cutter
12) structure material (wood, aluminium profiles 2020, )
 
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Team 2: Paper Gun
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Team 3:
TITLE: Arduino for senior citizens/ very young kids 
DESCRIPTION: Many seniors (70+ years) are interested in learning to hack with Arduinos, makey makeys etc. however, they have some challenges linke vision problems that inhibit the correct connection of pins, shaking hands during soldering,  difficulty in working with crocodile clips etc. Can we come up with some simple hacks to enable these seniors to programme arduinos more effectively? Incidentally, this can also be a good hack to help really young kids (5 and under who also have trouble with crocodile clips and such
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 Team 4:
TITLE: Design your own breadboard
DESCRIPTION:  Using copper tapes and pasting it on a piece of paper
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Team 5:
TITLE: MInd / Emg controlled prosthetic arm 
DESCRIPTION: Can we build a prosthetic arm that can be controlled by electrical impulses sent by your brain.
EQUIPMENT/SKILLS/PEOPLE NEEDED:
 Hackers with skills in arduino programming and in designing.
 tools
 a drill
 servo motors / stepper motors 
 anything you think may be relevant
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Team 6:
TITLE: Make should own flute from PVC pipe
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Team 7:
TITLE: Arduino Pedal shield
DESCRIPTION: Guitar effects
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Team 8:
TITLE: RC Plane Frame
DESCRIPTION: Building a frame for an RC plane, without electronics 
EQUIPMENT/SKILLS/PEOPLE NEEDED:
 Pen Knife
 Uhu por
 Sandpaper
 
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TITLE: Scientific Authorship Visualisation
DESCRIPTION: What would a scientific paper look like, if you plotted the authors of a scientific paper on a world map?  This visualisation tool would take in metadata from a scientific paper (or scraped it off the web), and plot the affiliations of the authors on a world map.  While most papers would look rather sparse, the visualisation for the LIGO or LHC papers might look rather interesting!
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TITLE: Where the heck am I pointing?
DESCRIPTION: Manual telescopes rely on seat of the pants astronavigation in order to locate objects in the sky.  Can a mobile phone be mounted on such a scope, with its magnetic and accelerometer sensors calibrated on the spot to give relatively accurate coordinates to locate stars and deep sky objects?
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TITLE: Drone tow truck
DESCRIPTION: Drones with electromagnetic pickups so that a swarm of them can come and haul off illegally parked cars.  A working scale model might be fine for Science Hack Day...
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TITLE: Dog Mood Reader
DESCRIPTION: Dogs express their emotions not just through their tails, but also through the set of their ears, their eyes, and their mouth.  Using machine vision and learning, establish a machine learning model that can accurately detect these features from a photo of a dog's face and thus determine a dog's mood.
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TITLE: Hack your toy
DESCRIPTION: What kind of new use can you give to your toys? Maybe make them move, light up, talk? This is a nice starter hack for parents and kids to work on together or as a team
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TITLE: chocolate glue gun
DESCRIPTION: can we make a hot glue gun dispense chocolate?
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. Materials for making mold
 
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