Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams curate the awesome hacks from the past week. On this episode, we marvel about the legacy RTL-SDR has had on the software-defined radio scene, turn a critical ear to 16-bit console audio hardware, watch generative algorithms make 3D prints beautiful, and discover why printer paper is so very, very bright white.

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 030 Show Notes:

New This Week:

• Orphaned Amazon Dash Buttons Ripe For Hacking
  • Hunz Dissects the Amazon Dash Button
• Breakfast At DEF CON This Sunday

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Disappearing Writing With UV Laser Reveals Whitening Agents In Myriad Products
  • Optical brightener
  • Fluorinert FC-40
• MDFourier Project Seeks The Genesis Of SEGA 16-bit Sound
  • Doing What Id Couldn’t: Returning Music To Jaguar Doom
• Computer Optimized 3D Printed Bookshelves
  • Topology optimization
  • There are open source options too:
    • ToPy Python Library
    • Various Consequences: Fully Scripted Open Source Topology Optimization
• Color Your World With This CNC Painting Robot
  • If Then Paint
• Ping-Pong Ball Makes Great PID Example
  • Control PID de Barra y Bola con Arduino – Estudio Roble
• Maybe The Oldest Computer, Probably The Oddest
  • Bi-quinary coded decimal – Wikipedia
  • Video (hear it in action): Working FACOM 128B Relay Computer

Quick Hacks:

• Mike’s Picks:
  • Hold 3500 Volts Up To Your Eye
  • Simulate Climate With An Arduino
  • The Not Quite USB-C Of Nintendo Switch Accessories
• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Ask Hackaday: How Would You Build This Flight Tracker For Kids?
  • Clicky Signspinner Works Just Like A Retractable Pen
  • Forming Fipples And Accompanying Accoutrements

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• A Trillion Trees – How Hard Can It Be?
• RTL-SDR: Seven Years Later
  • Universal Radio Hacker
  • Osmo-fl2k – osmo-fl2k – Open Source Mobile Communications