Did you read all 3000+ articles published on Hackaday this year? We did. And to help catch you up, we preset the Hackaday 2018 Year in Review podcast!
Join us for the podcast, available on all major podcasting platforms, as Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams attempt the impossible task of distilling the entire year into a one hour discussion. We’ve included every story mentioned in the podcast, and a few more, in the show notes here. But since we can’t possibly mention every awesome hack, we encourage you to share your favorites, and pat the writers on the back, by leaving a comment below.
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Direct download (60 MB or so.)
Show Notes:
Space Race of 2018
- SpaceX Joins In the Long History of Catching Stuff from Space
- SpaceX’s Next Giant Leap: Second Stage Recovery
- Are There Better Things to Hurl Into Orbit Than a Sports Car?
- Private Enterprise Will Help Nasa Return Moon
- Soyuz Rocket Emergency Landing; Everyone Ok
- International Space Station Is Racing The Clock After Soyuz Failure
- Soyuz Failure Leaves Questions Unanswered
- A Look At The UKs New Space Garbage Truck
- Space Garbage Truck Passes Its First Test
- Its Raining Chinese Space Stations Tiangong 1
- Do Space Probes Fail Because Of Space Weather
- Kepler Closes Eyes After A Decade Of Discovery
2019 Is the Year of the FPGA
- FPGA Persistently Rick Rolls You
- Easy FPGA CPU With Max1000
- Free ARM Cores For Xilinx FPGAs
- Programming A RISC-V Softcore With Ada
- RISC-V CPU Gets A Peripheral
- Vexriscv A Modular Risc V Implementation For FPGA
- Mipi Csi 2 Implementation In FPGAs
- Hands On With The Arduino FPGA
- Learn FPGA Fast With Hackaday’s FPGA Boot Camp
Silicon Bugs are a Pain in the Processor
Profiles in Science Series
- Check out the Biography category
- Stephanie Kwolek: Saving Lives with Kevlar
- Ted Dabney, Atari, and the Video Game Revolution
Badgelife is the Hacker Story of the Year
- Badgelife – a Hackaday Documentary
- All The Badges Of Def Con 26 Vol 1
- All The Badges Of Def Con 26 Vol 2
- All The Badges Of Def Con 26 Vol 3
- All The Badges Of Def Con 26 Vol 4
- Badgelife The Hardware Demoscene
- This Is The Year Conference Badges Get Their Own Badges
Laser Cutters are the New 3D Printers
Robot Building Isn’t (Quite as) Hard Anymore
Mike’s Favorite Original Content Articles
- They’re Putting Soy In Your Wires, Man
- The Basics And Pitfalls Of Pointers In C
- That Time Atari Cracked The Nintendo Entertainment System
- (Runner Up) The Precision Upon Which Civilizations Are Built
- (Runner Up) Beeping The Enemy Into Submission
- (Runner Up) Putting Crimpers To The Test How Good Are Our Crimp Tools
Elliot’s Favorite Original Content Articles
- Remember When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges On Demand?
- Top Octave Generator Series:
- Bluetooth Low Energy Series:
- (Runner Up) Series on Mechanisms
- (Runner Up) Series called Millspec Teardown
- (Runner Up) Quantum Weirdness in Your Browser
- (Runner Up) Building a Portable Solar-Powered Spot Welder: Nearly Practical!
Mike’s Favorite Hacks
- First Lithographically Produced Home Made IC Announced
- Sam Zeloof’s Talk at the Hackaday Superconference
- Self Solving Rubik’s Cube
- Membership Ring Of The Electronic Illuminati
- (Runner Up) The SD-11 Sphericular Display Pixels That Aren’t Pixels
- (Runner Up) Using Moire Patterns To Guide Ships
Thankyou to all the Hackaday writers. Thankyou for your efforts this year to bring us some great hacks.
Happy Christmas to all and all the best for the year ahead
Merry Christmas back at ya!
We love being able to cover the scene. Keep the tips and the great hacks coming! :)
“Did you read all 3000+ articles published on Hackaday this year? We did.”
How many USB sticks is that?
But did they “proofread” all 3000+ articles published on Hackaday this year?
We did!
B^)
Keep ’em coming, and we’ll keep correcting. :)
Still No sign up, registration, discus or facebook required to post comments.
Thanks for your continued bravery!!!
No scripts needed to see the comments either (I rarely go back to those sites).
The comments section remains a major part of why I keep coming here to read and sometimes throw in my own babbling missives.
Often times, the other commenters can send me on a several hours web crawl, in quest for further info about something.
Just the happy hazard, eh?
Here’s Hoping you folks have another good year at this business.
This. Thank you hackaday staff!!
Also echoed from the podcast (surprisingly interesting, even though I do read almost all of the articles – if only to be reminded of Mr Kim’s excellent artwork!).. As frustrating as it can be with the odd trollolol commenting thread (be that genuine, accidental or just pedantry), the comments section I find is a invaluable resource – even on articles that don’t interest me – there are these random nuggets of information cast out from some tangential idea that was already 4 layers into a reply-tree.
So, please HaD, as much as people bitch and complain about the limitations of the comment system, it’s a community that appears to work.
Interesting comment section and black background, such a big part about why this site is great. And the articles/hacks of course! Thx for a great year!
Don’t change a thing. Love the wide range of articles especially the the history of our trade/hobby.
Please publish a non-SoundCloud link to podcast.–Thanks
How about a direct download as MP3?
We’ll have to see if this hoses our CDN. If so, we might have to fall back to a lower-bitrate version.
(It also messes up our statistics, but whatevers.)
We have submitted this to a bunch of other platforms too (iTunes, Google Play etc.) which require review so we’ll get those links up once they get that approval.
Thanks to the management for BRINGING IN this staff of resourceful and interesting writers, and enabling them to share their efforts with us through this venue!
And to the faithful scribes themselves ;) whose work keeps us readers coming back. I know how much research can go into a single sentence about a new topic, and y’all somehow manage to come up with innumerable pages of fascinating stuff, day after day.
And to the commenters, whose rabid dedication to typo-fixing is somehow outshined by an even greater love of trivia, conspiracy theories, weird barely-related stories, and let’s not forget, falling for Benchoff’s bait every single time.
Hats off, and here’s to another year or ten!
“Available on all major podcasting platforms”, but if it isn’t, I think RSS feed is at
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:93913472/sounds.rss
Thanks for that!
Awesome podcast!
Speaking of Badgelife, I’ve always been curious: where does the FCC fall on producing a few hundred assembled badges for a conference?
If you’re using FCC certified modules, then you’re good AFAIK. I remember talking to the AND!XOR crew about that last year at Supercon — they picked particular microcontroller/radio modules _precisely_ b/c of FCC approval. They wanted it to work with BLE, but didn’t want to have any of the radio engineering hassles.
But yeah. That’s a real issue, especially for people who are selling badges. What’s the FCC cert status of random ESP8266 Module X?
Anyone have good suggestions for an offline Hackaday article reader? I’ve been using feedly to read HaD RSS for years, but it has no offline mode to speak of. You can sort of make the android feedly app work offline if you open it and let it cache stories before turning on airplane mode. But if the app gets pushed out of memory, that cache gets lost until you are online again. I’d like to find a solid method to catch up on HaD on long flights or when “off the grid” on vacation in poor cell coverage locations.