Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams dish their favorite hacks from the past week. Seems like everyone is trying to mill their own Mac Pro grille and we love seeing how they go about it. Elliot is gaga over a quintet of power latching circuits, Mike goes crazy for a dough sheeter project, and we dig through the news behind methane on Mars, the Raspberry Pi 4 release, and spoofing Presidential text alerts with SDR. If you like mini-keyboards you need to see the Fauxberry, Artificial Intelligence became an art critic this week, and poorly-lit rooms have been solved with a massive mirror system.
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Episode 025 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life
- Raspberry Pi 4 Just Released: Faster CPU, More Memory, Dual HDMI Ports
- Impersonate The President With Consumer-Grade SDR
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- The Quest For Perfect Croissants Via A DIY Dough Sheeter
- Ditch The Switch: A Soft Latching Circuit Roundup
- Everyone’s trying to mill their own Mac Pro grilles:
- AI And Art Appreciation
- The Feather “FAUXBERRY” Is Now A Real Thing
- A Rough And Ready Pan & Tilt Mirror
Quick Hacks:
- Mike’s Picks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
I thought Fauxberries are those plastic substitutes placed in neutered dogs, so they don’t feel bad when they get back to their buddies.
Those are neuticles. I think a fauxberry is closer to a dingleberry.
The soft switch circuit also works with an N-MOS if you can’t find a suitable P-MOS. Everything is just reversed, and you get a small DC offset between your battery ground and circuit ground – but that’s usually fine.