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Ep079: Wobble Sphere, Pixelflut, Skeeter Traps, and Tracing Apps
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams gaze upon the most eye-popping projects from the past week. Who would have known that springy doorstops could be so artistic? Speaking of, what happen…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Ep078: Happy B-Day MP3, Eavesdrop on a Mars Probe, Shadowcasting 7-Segments, & a Spicy Commodore 64
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys go down the rabbit hole of hacky hacks. A talented group of radio amateurs have been recording and decoding the messages from Tianwen-1, the Mars prob…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Ep077: Secret Life of SD Cards, Mining Minecraft's Secret Seed, BadPower is Bad, and a Sea of Neon
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams are deep in the hacks this week. What if making your own display matrix meant a microcontroller board for every pixel? That's the gist of this incredi…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Ep076: Grinding Compression Screws, Scratching PCBs, and Melting Foam
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys are enamored by this week's fabrication hacks. There's a PCB mill that isolates traces by scratching rather than cutting. You won't believe how awesom…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Ep075: 3D Printing Japanese Joinery, Android PHONK, One-Armed Time Bandit, and Whistling Bridges
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams scoop up a basket of great hacks from the past week. Be amazed by the use of traditional Japanese joinery in a 3D-printed design -- you're going to wa…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Ep074: Stuttering Swashplate, Bending Mirrors, Chasing Curves, and Farewell to Segway
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recap a week of hacks. A telescope mirror that can change shape, and a helicopter without a swashplate lead the charge for fascinating engineering. Th…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Ep073: Betrayal By Clipboard, Scratching 4K, Flaming Solder Joints, and Electric Paper
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams review a great week in the hacking world. There's an incredible 4k projector build that started from a broken cellphone, a hand-cranked player (MIDI) …
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Ep072: Robo Golf Clubs, Plastic Speedboats, No-Juice Flipdots, and Super Soakers
With Editor-in-Chief Mike Szczys on a well-earned vacation, Staff Writer Dan Maloney sits in with Managing Editor Elliot Williams to run us through the week's most amazing hacks and answer your burni…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Ep071: Measuring Micrometers, the Goldilocks Fit, Little Linear Motors, and 8-bit Games on ESP32
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams fan through a fantastic week of hacking. Most laser cutters try to go bigger, but there's a minuscule one that shows off a raft of exotic components y…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Ep070: Memory Bump, Strontium Rain, Sentient Solder Smoke, and Botting Browsers
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys bubble sort a sample set of amazing hacks from the past week. Who has every used the smart chip from an old credit card in as a functional component i…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago