Date notwithstanding, it’s your lucky day as Elliot and Dan get together to review the best hacks of the week. For some reason, film photography was much on our writers’ minds this week, as we talked about ways to digitalize an old SLR, and how potatoes can be used to develop film (is there a Monty Python joke in there?) We looked at a 3D printer design that really pulls our strings, the custom insides of the Raspberry Pi 5, and the ins and outs of both ferroresonant transformers and ham radio antennas. Learn about the SMD capacitor menagerie, build a hydrogen generator that probably won’t blow up, and listen to the differences between a mess of microphones. And that’s not all; the KIM-1 rides again, this time with disk drive support, Jenny tests out Serenity but with ulterior motives, and Kristina goes postal with a deep dive into ZIP codes.

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Episode 240 Show Notes:

News:

• Hackaday Superconference 2023: First Round Of Speakers Announced!

What’s that Sound?

• Guess the sound for a chance to win a Podcast T-shirt!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Raspberry Pi Reveals A Little About Their RP1 Peripheral
• Use Your Old SLR As A Digital Camera?
  • Classic Leica Film Camera Turns Digital
• Marionette 3D Printer Replaces Linear Rails With String
  • Hanging 3D Printer Uses Entire Room As Print Bed
  • Arcus-3D-C1 – Cable 3D printer
  • Cable Mechanism Maths: Designing Against The Capstan Equation
• Creating An Automated Hydrogen Generator At Home
  • Building An Oxygen Concentrator: It Isn’t Rocket Science
• Just What Is Tone, In A Microphone?
  • Wooden You Love To Build A Ribbon Microphone?
• Polish Up Your Product With Graphic Overlays
  • Hackaday Prize 2023: Over-the-Top Programmable Resistor Looks The Part And Performs

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Wiring Up 100 Car Batteries So You Don’t Have To
  • Learning About Ferroresonant Transformers While Fixing A 1970s Power Supply
    • What is a Ferroresonant transformer?
  • Antennas Can Be A Total Mystery
  • Dumping Spacecraft In The Middle Of Nowhere
• Dan’s Picks:
  • Spuds Lend A Hand In The Darkroom
  • An SMD Capacitor Guide
  • Implementing Commodore’s IEC Bus Protocol On A KIM-1 Single Board Computer

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Jenny’s Daily Drivers: SerenityOS, And In Particular, Ladybird
  • I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time – Andreas Kling – I like computers!
• You’ve Got Mail: It All Depends on ZIP Code
  • Check out all the articles in Kristina’s series!