Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams sort through the hacks you might have missed over the past seven days. In FPGA hacking news, there’s a ton of work being done on a newly discovered FPGA dev board. Kristina has a new column on input devices, kicking it off with tongue-actuated controllers. We wax philosophical about what data you need to backup and what you should let go. Plus Audacity is helping tune up CNC machines, copper tape is the prototyper’s friend, and fans of Open should take note of this laptop project.
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 051 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- New Contest: Train All The Things
- FPGA Dev Board Reverse Engineering:
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- The Flexible Permanence Of Copper Tape Circuits
- Gradient Infill Puts More Plastic Where You Want It
- Open Laptop Soon To Be Open For Business
- A Retro Touch Pad You Can Use On Modern Computers
- A Kill Cord To End Laptop Skulduggery
- Analyzing CNC Tool Chatter With Audacity
Quick Hacks:
- Mike’s Picks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
Hearing you talk about Colorlight caught me off guard as I work with their equipment daily! I’d be interested in trying to bring some large scale LED panel equipment to a HaD meetup/con in the future if there’s any interest from the community.
Heck yeah. What part of the world are you in?
And until then, there’s always The Internet! Take pictures and let us know. :)
(Did we get any of it right? The interface board is new to me.)
(Oh yeah: https://hackaday.com/2020/01/24/new-part-day-led-driver-is-fpga-dev-board-in-disguise/)