The folks over at Adafruit had this idea to make “merit badges” for different achievements. One of the major achievements they mentioned was having your project posted to Hackaday. They asked our approval and got it. The badges have finally come in, so we are happy to announce them. You can purchase them directly from Adafruit, along with a plethora of other badges to adorn your projects.
[Phil Torrone] had a great idea though. To celebrate this, they are going to give away 10 badges to the projects that you, our readers, choose to be the top 10. Go on, dig back through the ranks and post links in the comments. We’ll dig through them and try to compile a list. We will then try to contact those people to send them a free badge.
http://hackaday.com/2011/11/07/do-not-build-a-fully-automatic-battery-launching-air-gun/
this one is pretty awesome
Looks like the boy scouts are adding some new interesting badges as well.
Robotics – http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Robotics
Welding – http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2011/11/16/next-up-welding-merit-badge/
http://hackaday.com/2011/10/11/send-a-satellite-into-space-for-300/
I was browsing through adafruit the other day and noticed those. They have several other neat badges too. I should probably dig a bit more before voting, but I know I won’t bother, so I’ll just vote for one that I always thought was cool:
DIY synthetic aperture radar:
http://hackaday.com/2010/06/17/x-band-linear-rail-sar-imaging/
http://hackaday.com/2011/04/27/be-lazy-and-get-somewhere-at-the-same-time/
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. http://hackaday.com/2011/10/16/we-want-this-led-ball/
My vote too!
Naturally…
http://hackaday.com/2011/01/17/electronic-dice-has-option-for-20-or-100-sides/
benheck. So many projects that are so clean they could be right from the factory.
http://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/ps3-laptop-courtesy-of-ben-heck/
http://hackaday.com/2008/12/03/xbox-360-portable/#more-6609
http://hackaday.com/2008/11/29/ps360-controller/
http://hackaday.com/2010/12/03/make-your-own-tsa-naked-scanner/#more-31391
Got my vote too — Ellsworth better get a badge! Her contributions kick ass!
http://hackaday.com/2010/12/03/make-your-own-tsa-naked-scanner/#more-31391
I think steampunk deserves one hands down brilliant work mate.
Do the losing projects get the Magic Blue Smoke Monster badge?
http://hackaday.com/2011/11/23/name-these-parts-verifone-payment-module-tear-down/
Was pretty cool i thought
http://hackaday.com/2010/09/18/daft-punk-table-with-ipod-dock/
Sprite_tm deserves a dozen of these! See: http://hackaday.com/?s=sprite_tm
7 pages!
http://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/reverse-geocache-puzzle/ Combined open source hardware/software with puzzle solving, and the great outdoors. Brilliance.
In the interest of DIY and, well, hacking, shouldn’t we be making these ourselves?
I’m sure that if you made a DIY knitting mashine that spews out these badges, you’ll get a mention on this site, and thus qualify for a badge :-)
Well… If HAD made badges them selves, they would get the profit. Adafruit doesn’t make the badges themselves either.
Why does it have to be an “achievement” badge, I just want a HAD iron-on patch.
This here:
http://hackaday.com/2011/05/10/diy-portal-turret-is-looking-pretty-good/
1. It’s damn professional work. Very impressive!
2. It’s so cool, I want one, too (in fact, I’m trying to replicate it right now!)
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http://hackaday.com/2011/05/25/ps3-controller-spoofing-advancing-with-leaps-and-bounds/
this is my fav project on hackaday <3
http://hackaday.com/2010/07/30/elegant-wearable-computer/
I wonder if we will even manage to agree on 10 projects. As mentioned above, there are several contributors that are featured time and time again. Maybe the badges should be given to those folks.
I second Ben Heck.
BUY a MERIT badge????
That’s seems SO wrong!
Neat badge though…
Oh yeah, I want to be the first to post,
“We don’t need no stinking badges!”
So make sure they are sprayed with Febreze B^)
hey ren, the badges are being given away *free* for the top 10 projects here. soon – you’ll also be able to earn badges, again for free, if you come up with an amazing project that’s featured on hack-a-day. i’ll have more details on that as i roll that program out! it’s something i wanted to do back when i started hack-a-day and now i have some resources to do it and can work with the hack-a-day team to help reward all the cool makers that share their projects.
Oh, I didn’t mean the giveaway badges, I meant calling it a “merit” badge, while others could buy them “without” merit. B^)
Sort of like (in a small way) someone buying a “Medal of Honor” and then wearing it as if they received it.
I just might not be hacky enough to earn my own,
then again, I’ve seen “Reader Tips” published (and paid for) in magazines that I’d thought of long ago.
http://hackaday.com/2011/10/04/effortlessly-troll-your-friends-each-time-they-reach-for-a-snack/
epic FAIL?
make 10 different coloured badges, but keep one exclusive for hackaday, global phenomenon awaits, ala blue peter badges…
nope, purchase one for $3…
hi kevin! there are special versions of badges for the ones that are awarded for free :)
here’s preview, fun for hacking :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adafruit/tags/hackadayrfid/
http://hackaday.com/2011/05/20/using-an-avr-as-an-rfid-tag/
This is so cool!
If I HaD (pun intended) a second vote, that would be it.
Web enabled kinect is my favorite one
http://hackaday.com/2011/12/06/web-enabled-kinect/
Oh please – are we children? It’s like being in the scouts?!
Definitely the christmas lights hack that makes it easy to do custom projects for little time and money:
http://hackaday.com/2010/12/01/hacked-led-christmas-lights/
For example, I repurposed a couple strings for halloween props:
http://youtu.be/GGjCoO0ozzA
(warning: the audio is pure rambling)