Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys walk through the past week in hackerdom. There’s a new jargon quiz! Do you know what astrictive robotic prehension means? We look at the $50 Ham series, omni-wheeled pen plotting robots, a spectrum of LED hacks, LEGO CNC for chocolate rework, and grinding lenses with a CNC mill. In the “can’t miss” category are fingerprinting 3D Printers, and how NASA designs far beyond the stated life of an engineering project.
Links for all discussed on the show are found below. As always, join in the comments 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!
Direct download (60 MB or so.)
Episode 010 Show Notes:
New This Week:
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- Elliot recorded and edited an absolutely fantastic soundscape at Make Munich which aired at about 43:30 into Episode 9
- Do You Know Where Your Drone Is Headed? HJWYDK Article Explores Limits Of MEMS Sensors
- A great time to learn about Tex (like how to pronounce it).
- journal.hackaday.Io
- Erratum: Mike says “location” but he really means “heading”. It’s about where the robot is pointing.
- New column series: The 50 Ham: Getting Your Ticket Punched
- Look Ma No Glue Electrostatic Adhesion As If By Magic
- Jargon quiz: astrictive robotic prehension
- Hackaday Headed to China!
- Electronica China (Bom2Buy booth on 3/20/19)
- Hackaday Meetup Shenzhen on 3/22/19
- Hackaday Meetup Vietnam on 3/24/19
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
Quicklinks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Mike’s Picks:
(As always) Awesome podcast! Last semester I had to programm an omni wheel robot in uni and wrote a scripting language to code it’s path. I should ask if I can get it again to make that plotting thing, too!
PS: Elliot your american accent is not that bad when you speak german (atleast it wasnt at the 35c3 assembly). It really isn’t. It is obvious that you are american, but your german is fine (just the normal mistakes every foreigner does and a few missing words)
PPS: Is there an RSS feed for the hackaday journal? Didn’t know about that one. Maybe I can come up with something worth writing about someday
For any category or tag on Hackaday you can just put /feed at the end of the url, like this:
https://hackaday.com/tag/hjwydk/feed/
Yay! Glad you’ve been enjoying it. It would be neat to hear more about your scripting language for that Omnibot. If you need somewhere to write about it, I recommend hackaday.io ;-)
Eventhough it is my work, I gotta ask my Prof if I can publish that code, since it was some uni related stuff. Don’t know why he wouldn’t allow it, but i’ll just ask anyways and then it would probably have a good place on hackaday.io since I had to write a quite extensive documentation.
I think this week’s “quick-hacks”, er, tune was pretty good Elliot :-)
(not to take away anything from Mike’s noises last week)