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Candy chucker – weapon, or advanced Halloween delivery system?
Now we know why kids in this neighborhood wear plastic Halloween masks instead of just painting their faces. They’re trying to protect themselves from the onslaught of hard candy spewing out the front...
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Twitter-enabled candy machine dispenses treats on command
[Michael Nilsson] and [Markus Olsson] were contemplating how to motivate members of their dev team when they came up with the idea of a candy machine that automatically dispenses treats when someone...
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Design a Gingerbread House in CAD, then cut pieces with a laser
This is one of those ideas that’s so simple we can’t believe we haven’t heard of it before now. [Johan von Konow] is upping his holiday decorating game this year by designing his Gingerbread House in...
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Webcam eye-tracking moves robot-powered Skittles candy
This is a great hack, and it’s an advertisement. We wish this were the norm when it comes to advertising because they’ve really got our number. Skittles enlisted a few engineers to build a web...
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An amplifier circuit good enough to eat
[Dino's] kitchen skills match his hardware hacking prowess. Look really close at the image above and you’ll realize this collection of transistors and passive components is edible. Rather than...
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Hackerspace develops ways to get Peeps to spill their secrets
Whether you call it enhanced interrogation or torture, the subject is a lot less serious when the victim is a sugary confection. The LVL1 Hackerspace in Louisville, Kentucky recently held an event...
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This week on HANDMADE.hackaday
This week on HANDMADE.hackaday we’ve seen a pretty good variety of skills. There is the guy who makes tiny running engines by hand. You might recognize the construction of these triodes. A Lamborghini...
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Sugar Painting: street vendors make works of edible art
Street vendors can sometimes show the best examples of refined skill. These street vendors in China have carved out a niche with a very specific type of candy. They pour heated sugar in various shapes...
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Quick Candy Sorting Machine
OCD. Sometimes things just get to you, like those pesky bags of randomly assorted candies. [Torsten] decided to build a sorting machine capable of sorting Skittles or M&Ms into separate cups by...
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Push Button, Receive Candy (or Death)
Will you be handing out candy on Halloween? Maybe you have a party to attend or kids to take around the neighborhood and can’t be home to answer the bell. You don’t want to be The Dark House With No...
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Harmonicas, Candy, And Van Halen
Watch enough How It’s Made, and you’ll soon become very enthusiastic about computer vision and compressed air. In factories all around the world, production lines automatically sort the wheat from the...
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Venduino Serves Snacks, Shows Vending is Tricky Business
Seems like just about every hackerspace eventually ends up with an old vending machine that gets hacked and modded to serve up parts, tools, and consumables. But why don’t more hackerspaces build their...
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Technically A Hack. Still Questionable. Remote Control Food.
We thought we were going to read an article about, perhaps, a quadcopter that could fetch beer, or donuts. What we got was more along the lines of a donut dragging itself across the floor, rendering it...
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Sort Your Candy With A Raspberry Pi And Google Cloud Vision
If you have been off trick-or-treating and returned home with an embarassment of candy, what on earth can you do to mange the problem and sort it by brand? Yes, it’s an issue that so many of us have...
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M&Ms and Skittles Sorting Machine is Both Entertainment and Utility
If you have OCD, then the worst thing someone could do is give you a bowl of multi-coloured M&M’s or Skittles — or Gems if you’re in the part of the world where this was written. The candies just...
View ArticleGet Your Smarties or M&Ms From A Vending Machine
There are some debates that split the world down the middle. Serious stuff: M&Ms, or Smarties*? Yes, the two chocolate beans may bear a superficial resemblance to each other, but you’re either a...
View ArticleDelicious Optics, A Chocolate Diffraction Grating
Diffraction gratings are curious things. Score a series of equally spaced tiny lines in a surface, and it will cause reflected or transmitted light to bend and separate into its component wavelengths....
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Arcade Inspired Halloween Candy Dispenser
The days are getting shorter and the nights are a little cooler, which can only mean one thing: it’s officially time to start devising the trials you’ll put the neighborhood children through this...
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Paint the Rainbow with this Skittle-Dropping Pixel Art Robot
We hackers just can’t get enough of sorters for confections like Skittles and M&Ms, the latter clearly being the superior candy in terms of both sorting and snackability. Sorting isn’t just about...
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“Hey, You Left the Peanut Out of My Peanut M&Ms!”
Candy-sorting robots are in plentiful supplies on these pages, and with good reason — they’re a great test of the complete suite of hacker tools, from electronics to machine vision to mechatronics. So...
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