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On November 23rd last year, [Dhairya] attended a little shindig at MIT. Three drinks into the night, he blacked out and woke up in the hospital the next day. It was an alcohol-induced blackout, and like all parties at MIT, there's an ingenious solution to [Dhairya]'s problem. [Dhairya] came up with an alcohol-aware ice cube made of a coin cell battery, an ATtiny microcontroller, and an IR … [Read more...]
Want some fancy ice for your next cocktail party? You can try to find spherical ice-cube trays but you won't get the kind of results seen here. It turns out the trick to this isn't how you freeze the water, it's how you melt the ice. [Brendan O'Connor] started this project after seeing an ice mold that could make beautiful shapes rather than just cubes. But the price tag was $1400. If he could … [Read more...]
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