Collaborate Disseminate
Remember back when carabiners were designed solely for hanging one thing from another? Nope, us neither. Now, a new multi-purpose ‘biner is claimed to help users get out of crashed vehicles.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: Multi-… Continue reading RescueBiner is made to save users from their cars
Time is critical when rescuers are alerted to a swimmer in trouble, a surfer who’s taken a dive or a yacht guest who has fallen overboard. We’ve seen a number of crafty assistance devices over the years that are designed to help keep waterbab… Continue reading Remote-controlled lifebuoy propels itself to save troubled swimmers
When word first broke that Elon Musk was designing a kid-sized submarine to help rescue the children stuck in Thailand’s Tham Luang cave, it seemed like a logical thing for Hackaday to cover. An eccentric builder of rockets and rocket-launched electric sports cars, pushing his engineering teams and not inconsiderable financial resources into action to save children? All of that talk about Elon being a real life Tony Stark was about to turn from meme into reality; if the gambit paid off, the world might have it’s first true superhero.
With human lives in the balance, and success of the …read more
Some of the descendants of the region’s abandoned dogs are up for adoption. Continue reading The Radioactive Puppies of Chernobyl Will Find Homes in the United States
Parity Technologies lays out a potential fix. Continue reading The Only Thing That Will Save $150M In Locked Ethereum Is a Hard Fork
Agility Robotics does one thing really well, but is that enough? Continue reading These Roboticists Want to Take Over the World With a Pair of Legs
After a disaster hits, one obvious concern is getting everyone’s power restored. Even if the power plants are operational after something like a hurricane or earthquake, often the power lines that deliver that energy are destroyed. While the power company works to rebuild their infrastructure, [David Ngheim]’s mobile, rapid deployment power station can help get people back on their feet quickly. As a bonus, it uses renewable energy sources for power generation.
The modular power station was already tested at Burning Man, providing power to around 100 people. Using sets of 250 Watt panels, wind turbines, and scalable battery banks, …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Modular, Rapid Deployment Power Station
How do I get the data off this destroyed phone? It’s a question many of us have had to ponder – either ourselves or for friends or family. The easy answer is either spend a mint for a recovery service or consider it lost forever. [Trochilidae] didn’t accept either of those options, so he broke out the soldering iron and rescued his own data.
A moment’s inattention with a child near a paddling pool left [Trochilidae’s] coworker’s wife with a waterlogged, dead phone. She immediately took apart the phone and attempted to dry it out, but it was too late. …read more
Continue reading eMMC to SD Hack Rescues Data from a Waterlogged Phone
The volunteer rescue group is trying to save Italy from another devastating natural disaster. Continue reading Meet the Drone Squad That Wants to Catch Rockslides Before They Happen
The volunteer rescue group is trying to save Italy from another devastating natural disaster. Continue reading Meet the Drone Squad That Wants to Catch Rockslides Before They Happen