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Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by kvothe_ »

jstanley wrote: post #147

I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair o…

Fantastic!

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Post by robomartin »

Designed a camera system that is likely to end up on the moon within the next four years (NASA Artemis Mission). To be fair, there's a solid year of additional engineering that needs to go into this. The bulk of the engineering was done during lockdown. Now it's time to test and iterate.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by stevekemp »

I made an allotment! After waiting on a list for a while we received 10m x 10m space for ourselves for €50/year. We planted onions, potatoes, garlic, radish, and a few similar things. The timing worked out pretty well as we got access just at the start of May, which is a good time for planting a lot of things, and coincided with the lockdown here in Finland.

This morning I went over there and harvested some of the garlic, and right now our house smells of it. In a week or two it'll be dry enough to eat.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdLC6ADy5j/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBs3Qpjj5Qa/

Not a project, in the sense that this site usually lists, but still something I (we) made.

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