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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 9
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    Question to hardware hackers. What’s the most practically life-changing hack/mod/build you’ve ever done? (Not the most complex or technically clever or difficult... leverage over real life stuff)

    8:01 PM - 9 Aug 2020
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    • Dival Banerjee 🛸 Olaf Samantha Culp Jeff uncanny valley girl 🔪 Alex Sadzawka ianhansborough Paul Death will not release you
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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 9
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        I do what repairs and handyman shit I can and have to around the house (very limited) but I honestly can’t get motivated to do toy projects like blinking led or door alarm or lcd that says ‘hello’. Need either an art motivation or genuine practical hack value to put in effort

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      2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Aug 9
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        Rewired my dorm laundry machine to bypass the change counter for free laundry for me and friends :D

        2 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
      3. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor Aug 9
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        lol I was gonna do this to the chip card in my previous building but the hardware would have cost more than just paying

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      1. Michael Buckbee‏ @mbuckbee Aug 9
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        I helped my dad set up an open source hardware artificial pancreas (not my design) - https://openaps.org  - but it’s small batch circuit boards and 3D printed enclosures, etc. really life changing especially for kids.

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      2. Samantha Culp‏ @samanthaculp Aug 9
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        In the late 90s as a teenage zinester I learned the classic “Kinko’s trick” from reading about it in another zine... felt like a momentous instance of self-perpetuating media hack.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 9
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        What’s that?

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      2. 🅑🅔🅝‏ @ben_mathes Aug 9
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        @kane ?

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      3. Kane‏ @kane Aug 9
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        Mundane, but: If you’re willing to spend the money, joinery furniture. Otherwise, thread locker and glue when assembling furniture.

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      1. Andrew Benson‏ @pixlpa Aug 9
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        While I was in art school (c2003, pre-arduino) I figured out I could pull apart game controllers and patch in switches and other things to make interactive instruments. That discovery pretty much set me on the path I'm on now.

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      2. gk‏ @illiteralworst Aug 9
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        recently made a vibration sensor system for my mom's laundry machines so she could know when the cycle was finished without trekking up and down the stairs

        2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
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        gk Retweeted gk

        https://twitter.com/illiteralworst/status/1148676163755229185 …

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        gk @illiteralworst
        the 801s vibration sensor i ordered finally came in. rather than war dial the neighborhood, gunna be a good nerd son and hook up mom's washing machine with a pi zero and some push notifications. https://www.amazon.com/Exiron-Vibration-Sensor-vibration-Sensitivity/dp/B07CWXFNJM/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=801s+vibration&qid=1562700620&s=gateway&sr=8-5 …
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