Plans that never happened
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SparkGen: The Weekend Thermoelectric Generator
A portable, high-efficiency thermoelectric generator built from a rocket stove and scavenged Peltier modules, delivering 15W off-grid power — all in a single weekend.
Project Biolume: Sound-Responsive Bioluminescent Bacteria in a Weekend
A frantic weekend attempt to engineer E. coli to flash in synchrony with music, creating a living, light-up petri dish disco.
Project Pulsar: A Weekend-Built Radio Telescope to Catch Neutron Star Signals
Over a single caffeine-fueled weekend, build a low-frequency radio telescope from a hacked satellite dish, an RTL-SDR, and a Raspberry Pi, then point it at the sky to detect the rhythmic pulses of a distant pulsar.
MicroLease: The Weekend MVP for Hyperlocal Tool Sharing
A weekend-built platform enabling neighbors to rent out seldom-used tools and equipment for a few hours or days, with a trust-based reputation system.
The Weekend Dialect Atlas: Mapping English Microdialects in the UK via Twitter in 48 Hours
A 48-hour sprint to scrape Twitter for geotagged tweets, cluster dialectal lexical variants (e.g., 'tea' vs. 'dinner' vs. 'supper'), and produce a live map of UK microdialects — proving weekend-scale citizen science works.
Project Babel: Deciphering a Conlang's Phonology in 48 Hours
Can you derive the phonetic inventory and phonological rules of a constructed language from scratch over a single weekend, using only recordings from one native speaker? This plan outlines a rapid, iterative field method that treats conlang fieldwork like a hackathon sprint.
ECHO: Ghost at the Terminal
A single-player psychological horror game where you play a ghost haunting a terminal, scaring a new resident through text alone, all built in 48 hours.