Hackaday editor Elliot Williams and contributor Jonathan Bennett discuss the past week of Hackaday. Freeman Dyson, who wanted to send us to space on the back of nuclear explosions, passed away. Only slightly less dangerous, we looked at self-balancing vehicles, 3D printed press brakes, and making rubies in the home lab. All the usual suspects make cameo appearances: robots, FPGAs, and open-source software.
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!
Direct download (60 MB or so.)
Episode 058 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- Jonathan writes our weekly This Week in Security column, and you should check it out.
- Corona Virus is taking out tech conferences left and right:
- Open-Source Hardware Summit goes Virtual
- And Hackaday Belgrade is postponed. Stay tuned for details.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Forming Sheet Metal Parts With 3D Printed Dies
- How To Get Into Cars: Handling Mods
- A Quick And Easy Recipe For Synthetic Rubies
- John Deere And Nebraska’s Right To Repair, The Aftermath Of A Failed Piece Of Legislation
- Homebuilt Onewheel Uses Hoverboard Parts
- The Legacy Of One Of Science’s Brightest Stars: Freeman Dyson
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Jonathan’s Picks:
My first stab at the security column was published on May 1st, so almost a year.
Hey, Jonathan. Please keep up the awesome work you are doing. Your security round-up is how I discovered Hackaday, and one of the main reasons I keep coming back. It takes a huge amount of work to stay on top of such a volatile subject and an equally huge degree of skill to summarise it in such a readable way.
Thanks, and massive respect to you man!
Hi! It seems like there is a fault in the Direct Download? If I click it, it opens a tab with an address of API Soundcloud something, which is pretty empty, nothing to download. If I right-click and click Save Link As…, it is not an audio file, but a two byte file named “download” with no extension. Its content is “{}”
Yes, I’ve reported this to SoundCloud last week but no action yet. I’ve updated to the correct link:
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/775463014-hackaday-ep058-motorheads-3d-prints-that-bend-metal-and-homebuilt-onewheel-death-machines.mp3
Thanks for reporting.