{"id":535083,"date":"2026-07-06T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:05:08","slug":"the-coolest-hat-at-the-hacker-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535083\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering under an unseasonal June heatwave. Most of us have been cowering inside with our air conditioners, but not [Making Stuff With Mike]. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FSqJufgajMo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">He\u2019s adapting a safety helmet with a Noctua fan for only slightly uncool on-the-go cooling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, the hat is a straightforward hack. [Mike] mounted a 3D-printed chimney to the top of a hard hat and placed a fan in the top of it. But as always, there\u2019s a little more to it than meets the eye, and in this case it\u2019s because he\u2019s modeled the hat\/chimney interface by 3D scanning the hat and using the scan to create his CAD model. The two are attached with four small bolts, and a set of large holes are made in the hat for airflow. Taking it out for a spin, he finds it does the job, but has a few ideas for improvements.<\/p>\n<p>So Mike\u2019s ready for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/09\/04\/bornhack-2019-a-laid-back-hacker-camp-in-a-danish-forest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BornHack<\/a> hacker camp, which Hackaday has been to a few times. We\u2019re not so lucky with headgear, but at least if there\u2019s a heatwave, they have plenty of hammocks in the trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-535083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}