Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys are enamored by this week’s fabrication hacks. There’s a PCB mill that isolates traces by scratching rather than cutting. You won’t believe how awesome this angle-cutter jig is at creating tapered augers for injection molding/extruding plastic. And you may not need an interactive way to cut foam, but the art from the cut pieces is more than a mere shadow of excellence. Plus we gab about a clever rotary encoder circuit, which IDE is the least frustrating, and the go-to tools for hard drive recovery.
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 076 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- Roboticist Grant Imahara Of Mythbusters Fame Dies Of Aneurysm At Age 49
- Don’t Wait, You Need To See Comet NEOWISE Right Now
- Dream Team Members Announced For The 2020 Hackaday Prize
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Making PCBs The Easy Way
- Learn The Secrets Of Matching Bottle Cap Threads To One Another
- Making Smalltalk On A Raspberry Pi
- Interactive CNC Foam Cutter Churns Out Abstract Art
- Open-Source Grinder Makes Compression Screws For Plastic Extruders Easy
- Spoofing An Analog Rotary Knob With An ATtiny, And Vampiric Power
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Mike’s Picks:
“Cults are a thing of the past, we’re all about science and rationality now”
Hahaha. Humans are just not rational creatures. Cults of one sort or the other will always be with us.
Elliot, thank you for picking my LED ball project for one of your quick hacks. I was just listening to the Hackaday podcast on my evening walk when I heard you mention my project on the podcast! Cool. And you got Mike following the project too. Thanks again!
As a random listener, just want to say that I also loved your project and your PCB design is sick!