Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they review the most interesting hacks and stories of the previous week. This time we’ll start things off by talking about the return of in-person events, and go over several major conventions and festivals that you should add to your calendar now. Then we’ll look at a NASA training film from the Space Race, an interesting radio-controlled quirk that Tesla has built into their cars for some reason, a very promising autonomous boat platform, and some high performance visuals generated by an ATtiny85. Stick around to find out what happens with an interplanetary probe looses its ride to space, and why the best new enclosure for your Raspberry Pi 4 might be a surveillance camera.
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments below!
Episode 164 Show Notes:
News This Week:
- Warm Up Your Extruders, RepRap Festivals Are Back
- About – 2022 Open Hardware Summit
- Vintage Computer Festival East – Vintage Computer Federation
What’s that Sound?
- Think you know this week’s sound? Enter for a chance to win a coveted Hackaday Podcast t-shirt!
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- NASA Hardware Techniques: Soldering Space Electronics Like It’s 1958
- Just In Case You Want To Charge Your Neighbor’s Tesla
- Best Ways To Make PCB Breakaway Tabs, Revealed
- Robotic Boat Rides High On PVC Pipe Pontoons
- Mindblowing Graphics From An ATtiny85
- Coin Acceptors Are Higher-Tech Than You Think
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Tom’s Picks:
When I was in school for electronics engineering (back in the 80’s) we all carried the tradition pink pencil erasures specifically to clean edge card connectors. Worked like a charm and made the copper contacts shiny and clean.