Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look at all that’s happening in hackerdom. This week we dive deep into super-accurate clock chips, SPI and microcontroller trickery, a new (and cheap) part on the microcontroller block, touch-sensitive cloth, and taking a home X-ray to the third dimension. We’re saying our goodbyes to the magnificent A380, looking with skepticism on the V2V tech known as DSRC, and also trying to predict weather with automotive data. And finally, what’s the deal with that growing problem of electronic waste?
Links for all discussed on the show are found below. As always, join in the comments below as we’ll be watching those as we work on next week’s episode!
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!
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Episode 007 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- Inefficient Neopixel Control Solved With Hardware Hackery
- A WS2812 to SPI adapter built from an ATtiny10
- Wayne Holder’s walkthrough of the adapter
- Ask Hackaday Is There A Legit Use For Operator Precedence?
- Jenny List explains Reverse Polish Notation
- Elliot Williams’ article on Forth for STM32
- Building A 1/4W Laser Pointer In A Tiny Housing
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Casio Watch Gets A Mems Oscillator Upgrade
- DS3231 TCXO RTC datasheet
- PCF2129 TCXO RTC datasheet
- Dan Drown does an excellent DS3231 and PCF2129 Comparison
- A Look Inside The DS3231 Real Time Clock
- How To Program A Really Cheap Microcontroller
- Custom Firmware For Cheap Fitness Trackers
- DIY X-Ray Machine Becomes CT Scanner
- Ambitious Homebrew X Ray Machine Reveals What Lies Within
- Fran Piernas’ X-Ray Build Project
- Fran hosted this week’s Hack Chat on X-Ray and High Voltage
- You Are Your Own Tactile Feedback
Quicklinks:
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- Elliot’s Picks:
I recently listened to and really enjoyed the “best of 2018” podcast, guys. Looking forward to hearing more.
Thanks, glad to hear it! We’re having fun doing it weekly and there’s some extra variety planned in the coming weeks so stay tune (har har… so cliche ;-D )
I don’t have time to browse HaD every day so I like listening to the show to get the best of HaD each week. I listen in the car and sometimes forget to look at this post to dig into the individual projects. Can you make an email newsletter just with the show notes so I’ll remember to go through the links?
I made a quick hack where IFTTT checks the RSS at https://hackaday.com/category/podcasts/feed/ and emails me the contents when there’s a new entry. Although I’d still like an official HaD email, I think this will work for now.
Phone geekery? more like Phreekery