[Philip] got a tattoo of the Hackaday Skull ‘n Wrenches. His job is mostly office work in long sleeves, so everything’s good. The original logo was drawn in Flash by [Phil Torrone] of Adafruit, and reworked into a slightly more modern file format by [Elliot]. Yes, a skull and wrenches is a biker symbol and can be found in the emblem for a few military divisions (mostly for armored support). The Hackaday logo is by far the most cartoonish of all of these Jolly Wrenchers.
Speaking of scrawling the Hackaday logo on stuff, [Rodrick] was bored and needed a distraction last Saturday night.
We’ve seen perpetual motion machines on Kickstarter, and we’ve seen projects that may actually have some basis in reality. We’ve seen 12-year-olds put up a Kickstarter for a new gaming computer, and we’ve seen campaigns to build a bar in some random guy’s basement. There is only one project we haven’t seen on Kickstarter, until now: a campaign to build another crowdfunding platform. It is the Shortening of the Way.
You want a fail? This is a fail. [Chris] is working on a device that combines the familiar Arduino pinout with a CAN transceiver. A good idea, but if you build a PCB, you’re going to need traces. [Chris] sent his files off to our favorite purple board house and got back a sheet of copper laminate with holes in it. A good reminder to check your Gerbers before sending them off.
Live around Denver? There’s a hackerspace in Broomfield, Colorado that’s looking for a new space. They have a Kickstarter for the lease and they’re looking for some people to fill their space.
You kids out there with Pro Tools and Logic don’t know how good you have it. Back in the day, audio was recorded on magnetic tape with exacting mechanical devices called multitrack recorders. [Fran] fished her Otari 8-track recorder out of storage, and it’s a thing of beauty. Also out of storage is a 300 lb+ plate reverb.
RE: Version 3 boards with no traces.
I had a good laugh when the project crater said “version 3.1 looks promissing”
Why wouldn’t the company making the boards send an e-mail and ask if he really wanted them without any traces?
I would imagine that you don’t pay for that.
On my first oshpark boards i forgot drill files. they send me an email, and no it was no automatic mail. i was impressed… never thought for this price anybody would care. Thoght of it as a fully automatic process.
OSH park has grown now, but I was sending them boards when it was just Laen doing it all by hand. You would email him the files, he would place it on the large panel, and send you a quote for the total cost. Very very personal. Glad to see they haven’t lost that touch.
I have only used them for doing a small PCB and trying out their new software by sending in the Eagle .brd file. They show a preview of the board with traces and there wasn’t any surprises.
I smiled at that as well. …definition of ::facepalm::.
If you really think it is the most “Cartoonish” then you need to watch a real “Cars”toon. The movie Planes features a Jolly Wrenches with a piston head in an actual cartoon.
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/disneyplanes/images/7/71/Tumblr_ms3lojNcnw1qe8a3lo1_500.jpg
Next up on hack-a-day: how to build your own laser tattoo removal system…
What, you don’t have a belt sander?
That has to hurt! But still, you get a nice battlescar!
nice ink!
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1055/
Geek bonus… The nose now looks like a ST:TNG comm badge…
>Skull and Wrenches Logo are Trademarks of Hackaday.com
That got to get the trademark lawyers all worked up. Trademark laws requires the trademark actively defended against unauthorized usage. Even if HaD authorized the usage, the person might have to add the above text???
That text would be better than “Hack Naked” 8-(
Don’t bother. The judge will go light on him out of pitty on account of the fact that he is obviously never going to get laid.
I own a 2-track Otari (MX5050) recorder. Solid machines.