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1/ BrailleBot - 🎖️Best Hardware Prize Converting a 3d printer and junk material from Stanford supply closet into a $15 braille printer Jason Lin Cathy Zhou Scott Hickmann Lawton Skaling

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Stanford just hosted a hackathon. Over 1000 Ivy League and elite engineering students came to build for 36 hours straight. The reward? $200k+ in prizes. Here are the winners and crowd standouts we saw at TreeHacks ‘25 @hackwithtrees (🧵):

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2/ OMNOM - 🎖️ Most creative prize End to end food ordering and delivery robot that drives to restaurants, picks up orders, and brings them home Built from scratch with spare parts and custom aluminum @NilsIRL @AJobAIO @JohnathanM62119

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3/ GitRizz - 🎖️Editor’s choice Dating app that finds matches based on your GitHub. AI analyzes your profile creating vector embeddings of your commit history and finds similar matches Tinder for CS majors @AlorSahoo @dtzhou2

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4/ Aegis Biomedical device to dispense medicine in emergency scenarios based on biometric data from wearables (Apple Watch) @dynguyen0 @anshag01 @rickgxa @AnshSheth4

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5/ NeuroScribe Brain computer interface keyboard Translate thoughts into binary, which can be translated into any language

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6/ Engage Multimodal classroom TA that charts your progrsss analyzes interactions with Gemini to see who’s paying attention and asking questions AI observability, for students @nonhausdorff @BorlettiLuca

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7/ Super Smash Bros Recreated in Java. And also displays a fun AI generated fact at the end screen. That’s it. (I really liked this one). @_ayushnayak @Alan_Ma_

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7/ THE CAT Robot rescue cat built to help in fire emergencies by identifying victims and calling 911

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8/ Ranger - 🥈Best Idea 2nd place Augmented reality wearable for the deaf that transcribes audio and shows the directional location of noises Runs completely offline

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9/ Auto LeARn Car mechanic AR headset to help users fix their cars with videos and AI suggestions

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10/ Pet Talks AI camera to translate animal actions and gestures into words to help pet owners understand what their pets are thinking Ring for bunny rabbits @_binhle

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11/ Easy Read Chrome extension for English learners that lets you click to replace complicated words found in websites or papers Toucan but for English

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12/ BAS Climate Action - 🎖️Sustainability prize AI agent that identifies areas where businesses can implement relevant UN-catalogued Cooperative Climate Initiatives Deep research for building sustainable businesses

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Are you a hacker dying to work on the most ambitious AI projects? We’re hiring interns, DM’s open That’s all I could film! Huge shoutout to @MLHacks @hackwithtrees @Stanford Want to see more hacks, AI agents, and demos? Follow @AlexReibman @AgentOpsAI

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