HackUMass VII Funniest Hack Projects
Music-lyric trivia meets Kahoot in our fast-paced, phone-based music guessing game!
Using a experimental speech recognition system, karaoke file...
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Node.js
Express
Python
Prizes Won:
2nd Place
Team Members:
Jacob Dillon,
Michael Taylor,
Brandon Mino,
Christopher Vassallo,
Xuan Chau,
Finn Navin
As birds migrate south each winter, they can be difficult to track, especially in extreme climates. Our product, Bird Backpacks provides a cheap, s...
HTML/CSS
SQL
C/C++/C#
Python
Flask
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Microcontrollers
AI/Machine Learning
Prizes Won:
Best Use of Google Cloud (MLH)
Team Members:
Jason Smith,
Shruti Janardhanan,
Nicole Nguyen
Why spend $20 on a drill when you can spend 20 hours creating a 3D printed one? Live your broke college student dreams while using the loudest dril...
Other Hardware
Team Members:
Vineeth Rao,
Jeffrey Matheson
A robot that detects objects in front of it, and then drives around it in order to avoid it
Java
C/C++/C#
Arduino
Team Members:
Sagyan Aryal,
Mohammed Kabir,
Wahkeef Waheed,
Mostafa Kamal
A project where we were ambitious but fell very short
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Node.js
Team Members:
David Kelchner,
Dan Sysopha,
Ryan Wickett
Vine is dead, but Discord is alive and well. Let VineBot bring back nostalgia from the good old years of 2016 and soothe you with some favorite cla...
Javascript
Node.js
SQL
Python
Team Members:
Wyatt Phillips,
Elizabeth Dewsnap,
Devin Denham
We wanted to convert our phones into a pokedex for animals. Point and recognize the creature in front of you with its species.
Python
AI/Machine Learning
Misc
Team Members:
Shanu Vashishtha,
Mayank Jha
The goal of this project was to create a button that must be triggered every day, once a day, or else a select about of files are deleted or upload...
Python
Microcontrollers
Misc
Prizes Won:
Most Ambitious Hack
Team Members:
Thomas Morton
Asimov is a robot capable of writing fanfictions of any book ever written. He will also read the story to you. Almost every word he wrote, he gener...
Python
AI/Machine Learning
Team Members:
Samuel Spillane
Take a Raspberry Pi 3 on the go, and if you have wifi, play our game.
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Raspberry Pi
Other Hardware
Misc
Team Members:
Redwan Rahman,
Ali H,
kago motsoma
Gremln is a hardware hack that detects nearby sounds and points in the direction of the loudest sound it detects.
Arduino
Other Hardware
Team Members:
Connor French,
Jonathan Wang,
George Jiang,
Ahmed Jaafar
It's a freakin catapult!
A wide array of sensors coming together in perfect harmony to create a one in a lifetime experience.
Hit the Target an...
Arduino
Microcontrollers
Robotics
Other Hardware
Team Members:
Lukas Baur,
Michael Derstroff,
Cedric Derstroff
We have developed the LEAST efficient pi calculating algorithm known to man! Hope you have patience and a sense of humor...
Python
Team Members:
Owen DeCleene,
Jacob Rocha,
Grady Sullivan
View shady and misleading sites from the comforts of our own website! View sites that Google would never want you to see (Honestly probably for a g...
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Node.js
Express
Vue
SQL
Python
Misc
Team Members:
Jerry Zeng,
Adam Powell
A gadget that randomly plays out the audio of some of the most iconic vines of our generation based on the 3 facets of human emotion: sad, happy, a...
Python
Raspberry Pi
Team Members:
Charvi Attri,
Srija Nagireddy,
Jessica Peters,
Eesha Arabhavi
I always sleep through my alarms, but with BuzzWhack, I wake up to the pleasant sensation of being whacked.
C/C++/C#
Arduino
Other Hardware
Prizes Won:
Funniest Hack
Team Members:
Vera Gold,
Maya Geer,
Michael Capone,
Jayesh Ramana
small cube runs from big ball
C/C++/C#
Misc
Team Members:
Eugene Mak,
Shoji Rinaldi
An electric, remote controlled, motorized, RGB LED-ridden sofa chair complete with a touchscreen infotainment system and a backup camera. Also, it ...
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Microcontrollers
Robotics
Other Hardware
Prizes Won:
Best Hardware Hack
Team Members:
Andi Duro,
Norlinda Steward,
Amrit Parmanand,
Matthew St Jean
Ensures that our resources are used appropriately
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Java
Misc
Team Members:
Vani Korepu,
Evan Risas,
Simon Mekonen,
Sattwik Das,
Daniel Obichie
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Flexin’ On The Haters is a revolutionary technology that allows you to flex online every time you flex in real life!
Every time the user flexes ...
Python
Arduino
Other Hardware
Prizes Won:
Best Domain Registered with Domain.com (MLH)
Team Members:
Donald Finlayson,
Andrew Zeoli,
Brian Thornber,
Patrick Wynn