Gallery: ElectionBot, KineSutra and Other Mad Creations From Science Hack Day

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    *David McKeown, Daragh Byrne, Juliane Bombosch, and Ryan Anderson make some last-minute additions to ElectionBot.*
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    *Testing out project Baudio, a brainwave monitor that outputs a frequency based on alpha waves.*
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    *Team KineSutra wires up Jean Rintoul with their dance move feedback suit.*
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    *Developing the KineSutra haptic feedback suit.*
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    *Team KineSutra waits their turn to present.*
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    *Rio Akasaka presents TwitterDots, his Twitter scraper and geocoder.*
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    *Rio Akasaka's other project, a wrist-based input device that uses flex sensors to read hand movements.*
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    *Roll Your Own Gcode was an attempt to increase 3-D printing efficiency by printing in a spiral, rather than discrete layers.*
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    *Quantum mixology, or the art of matching fundamental particles to cocktail recipe ingredients.*
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