Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams cover the most interesting hacks over the past week. So much talk of putting computers in touch with our brains has us skeptical on both tech and timeline. We celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Walkman, but the headphones are the real star. Plus, Verilog isn’t just for FPGAs, you can synthesize 7400 circuits too! Elliot is enamored of an additive/subtractive printing process that uses particle board, and we discuss a couple of takes on hybrid-powered drones.

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!

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 028 Show Notes:

New This Week:

• 5G Power Usage Is Making Phones Overheat In Warm Weather
• Notable Hackaday Deadlines:
  • One Week Left For Supercon Talk And Workshop Submissions
  • 2019 Hackaday Prize: Final month for entries!
• The South American Power Outage That Plunged 48 Million Into Blackout

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• External Buffer Boosts 3D Printer Filament Splicing On The Palette 2
  • Mosaic Palette: Single Extruder Multi-Color And Multi-Material 3D Printing
  • Josef Prusa: Multi Material Extruders For Amazing Color Prints
• Control Your Web Browser Like It’s 1969
  • Hacked Phone Runs Zork, Gets Lamp
• Breathing LED Done With Raw Logic Synthesized From A Verilog Design
  • Explanation of the process: VHDL to PCB
  • Synthesis library by Dan Ravensloft: 74series.lib
• 3D Printer Meets CNC Router To Make Wood Prints
  • Laser Cut-and-Weld Makes 3D Objects
  • Industrial 3D Printing Uses Layers Like We’ve Never Seen Before
• Create A Low-Cost, High-Accuracy LCR Meter With An STM32 MCU
  • Circuit VR: Resistance Measurement With Four Wires
• Hybrid Drones Could Have Massively Extended Flight Times
  • Designing Compact Gasoline Generator Prototype For Drone Use
  • Unconventional Drone Uses Gas Thrusters For Control

Quick Hacks:

• Mike’s Picks:
  • A Drop-In Upgrade Module For Cheap Rotary Tools
  • DIY Teensy Looper Multiplies Music
  • Farting Baseball; From The Makers Of Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Building A Bigger Cloud Chamber
  • I Love The Smell Of ABS Plastic In The Morning
  • Getting Hackers Excited About Cable Robots

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Forget The Walkman: It’s The Headphones
• Brain-Computer Interfaces: Separating Fact From Fiction On Musk’s Brain Implant Claims