Collaborate Disseminate
According to a new study, we’re growing too many grains, fats, and sugars and not enough fruits, vegetables, and protein. Continue reading We Need to Completely Change Agriculture to Adapt to Climate Change
A study published this week in ‘Environmental Science & Technology’ sampled salt brands from across the globe and found 92 percent contained microplastics. Continue reading You’re Literally Sprinkling Plastic On Your Food
We’ve all seen a movie or TV show that got our imagination going, and the more studious of us might get fired up over a good book (one without pictures, even). You never know were inspiration might come from, which is why it’s so hard to track down in the first place. But one place we don’t often hear about providing many hackers with project ideas is the grocery store. But of course the more we learn about [Michael Kohn], the more we realize he’s got a very unique vision.
On a recent trip to the grocery store, [Michael] saw …read more
Continue reading The Crustacean Battle Bot of your Nightmares
Michael Tlusty, a lobster biologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, says the jury is still out on if lobsters can feel pain. Continue reading Does Getting Lobsters High Before Boiling Them Alive Reduce Suffering?
A new state law prohibits labeling any product as ‘meat’ unless it comes from an animal. Continue reading Tofurkey Is Suing Missouri for the Right to Call Veggie Dogs “Meat”
You step out of the audience onto a stage, and a hypnotist hands you a potato chip. The chip is salty and crunchy and you are convinced the chip is genuine. Now, replace the ordinary potato chip with a low-sodium version and replace the hypnotist with an Arduino. [Nimesha Ranasinghe] at the University of Maine’s Multisensory Interactive Media Lab wants to trick people into eating food with less salt by telling our tongues that we taste more salt than the recipe calls for with the help of electrical pulses controlled by everyone’s (least) favorite microcontroller.
Eating Cheetos with chopsticks is …read more
After decades of seeing activists lay out the obvious economics of meat, and reading research by economists confirming the obvious, it looks as if the market finally is shifting. Eating meat is by far the number one impact to climate change and executi… Continue reading Meat is Murder on the Environment
How do you feel about Jello? It’s alright tasting, but it’s much more about how jiggly it gets. Nobody — probably — would eat Jello if it was a hard candy. It would quickly become restricted to the bowl of strawberry candies that Grandma always seems to have. How do you feel about knives? We’re on Hackaday. Most everybody here has at least a couple in their toolbox. Some of them have more than a couple, including the whetstones to sharpen them. It’s safe to say they probably like the concept. Now, what if you could combine the two? Two …read more
Continue reading Dust to Dust and Jello to Jello: the Journey of a Very Strange Knife
The Action Lab did an experiment to show how the energy of sound can be converted into heat, and even cook food. Continue reading Can You Cook an Egg by Screaming at It?
You might think that a microcontroller would be needed to handle a vending machine’s logic. For one thing, only the correct change should activate them and the wrong change should be returned. If the correct change was detected then a button press should deliver the right food to the dispenser. But if you like puzzles then you might try to think of a way to do with without a microcontroller. After all, the whole circuit can be thought of as a few motors, a power source, and a collection of switches, including the right sized coin.
That’s the way [Little …read more
Continue reading No Microcontroller In This Vending Machine, D’oh!