Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look back on a great week of hardware hacking. What a time to be alive when you can use open source tools to decode signals from a probe that has long since left our solar system! We admire two dirt-cheap builds, one to measure current draw in mains power, another to mill small parts with great precision for only a few bucks. A display built from a few hundred 7-segment modules begs the question: who says pixels need to be the same size? We jaw on the concept of autonomous electric cargo ships, and marvel at the challenges of hitting an asteroid with a space probe. All that and we didn’t even mention using GLaDOS as a personal assistant robot, but that’s on the docket too!
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Episode 136 Show Notes:
What’s that Sound?
- That sound was The Secret of Monkey Island theme
- [Lee] was randomly drawn from eight correct responses and wins the shirt!
New This Week:
- 2021 Hackaday Remoticon: Call For Proposals
- German Experiment Shows Horses Beating Local Internet Connections
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Minimal Mill: The Minamil
- How The PS5’s Genuinely Clever Adaptive Triggers Work
- GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
- Using Homebrew Coils To Measure Mains Current, And Taking The Circuit Breaker Challenge
- GLaDOS Voice Assistant Passive-Aggressively Automates Home
- What’s Cooler Than A 7-Segment Display? A 7200-Segment Display!
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks
- Mike’s Picks:
How many days is the “WTS?” form left open? Was closed at least by the 15th. And its TSoMI special edition. Many different version of that soundtrack.
Sorry about that.
We record the podcast on Wednesdays (mid-day in the US, night for me), so we’ve got to shut it down before then.