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GEEKY BEACH GADGETS
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1. SAND WRITER Out: Writing your name in
the sand with a stick. In: Programming a crawler
robot to scrawl messages of any sort for you.
youtube.com/watch?v=7T1esQgRwrM
2. AI SURFLINE WAVE DETECTOR There’s
nothing worse than getting skunked because of
a bunk wave report. Next time, train an artificial
intelligence setup with thousands of wave images
to get the smartest surf analysis yet.
instructables.com/BAIwatch-AI-and-Surf
3. BEACH CLEANING ‘BOT Ultrasonic sensors
and a scooper to clear your space of awful rocks
and even-worse litter. instructables.com/Beach-
Cleaning-Robot-garbage-Collector-/
4. FOLLOW-ME COOLER Why would anyone
choose to lug a brick of ice and plastic through
the sand, when they could build a basic droid that
does the job for them? instructables.com/Follow-
Me-Cooler-on-the-Beach
5. MINIMAL METAL DETECTOR The design
may not be ideal for finding treasure —but maybe
the gadget itself is the treasure. instructables.
com/Minimal-Arduino-Metal-Detector
6. LORA WEATHER BUOY How’s the water?
This buoy will beam you the conditions so you
don’t have to swim out to figure it out. hackster.io/
amerch92/lora-weather-buoy-9e739b
7. SELF-POSITIONING RACE BUOY
Competitive sailing can be so unfair with those
antiquated, loosely anchored race markers.
This one powers itself into precise position
automatically. makeprojects.com/project/self-
positioning-race-buoy
8. ELECTRIC KAYAK Invoke the powerof a
quarter of a horse with this 12V motor upgrade
for your plastic vessel. create.arduino.cc/
projecthub/Netcamprojects/an-electric-kayak-
4d3a50
Leave it to makers to happily go
over the top on everything they do;
even a relaxing day at the beach
is a perfect opportunity to deploy
new builds and technology. Why
lay motionless under the blazing
sun when you can troubleshoot
electronics and determine
how sea mist and sand affect
operability? Now that’s a vacation
we can get excited about!
Here are a few projects you can
build to augment those summer
trips to the shore. Working on
something that fits on this list?
Share it on makeprojects.com!
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