Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams take a look at the latest hacks from the past week. We keep seeing awesome stuff and find ourselves wanting to buy cheap welders, thermal camera sensors, and CNC parts. There was a meeting of the dog-shaped robots at ICRA and at least one of them has super-fluid movements. We dish on 3D printed meat, locking up the smartphones, asynchronous C routines, and synchronized clocks.

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 037 Show Notes:

New This Week:

• Is A Cheap Inverter Welder Worth It?
• Getting The Heat On With A Thermal Camera
• Lack Of Space Is No Longer An Excuse For Not Having A Pen Plotter
• Windows 3.1 Screensavers, Now On Twitter
• XScreenSaver: Screenshots

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Fighting Household Air Pollution
• Watch Legged Robot Run Circles Around Its Bigger Brethren
  • Robotic Cheetah Teaches A Motors Class
• How Would You Like Your Steak Printed?
  • Carbon Footprint of 5 Diets Compared
  • Environmentally Optimal, Nutritionally Sound, Protein and Energy Conserving Plant Based Alternatives to U.S. Meat
• IoT Safe Keeps Latchkey Kids’ Phones On Lockdown
  • Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast: 027 – The Box
• Asynchronous Routines For C
  • Protothreads – Lightweight, Stackless Threads in C
  • Coroutines in C
  • A new way to program microcontrollers
  • Duff’s device – Wikipedia
  • Tom Duff on Duff’s Device
• Fitness Tracker Hacked Into Optical Density Meter

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Finally, A Rotary Cell Phone With Speed Dial
  • Copying High Security Keys With OpenSCAD And Light
  • Hacked Tape Player Makes For A Unique Instrument
• Mike’s Picks:
  • Larger-Than-Life Game Of Operation Is The Future Of Healthcare
  • Helicopter Chain Saw
  • Magnets Make This Panda Move

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Ask Hackaday: What Good Is A Robot Dog?
• 100 Year Old Atomic Clock
  • The Best Pendulum Clock