This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up to discuss the best hacks of the previous week. It’s CES time once again in Las Vegas, and you know what that means — some wacky technologies like this AI pet door that rejects dead mice.
Then it’s on to What’s That Sound, which Kristina managed to nail for once. Can you get it? Can you figure it out? Can you guess what’s making that sound this week? If you can, and your number comes up, you get a special Hackaday Podcast t-shirt.
But then it’s on to the hacks, beginning with a new keyboard from [Joe Scotto] and an exploration of all you can do with an LED strip, like 1D fireworks and roller coasters without any moving parts. From there, we marvel at the ability of sound waves to extinguish flames, and the tech behind life as a quadriplegic. Finally, we examine not one, but two of Jenny List’s finely-crafted rants, one about web browsers, and the other about the responsible use of new technology.
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!
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Episode 252 Show Notes:
News:
- CES 2024 live: Latest tech, weird gadgets and our Best of CES awards
- New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
What’s that Sound?
- Fill out this form with your best guess, and you might win!
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- X1Plus: Open Source Bambu Lab X1 Firmware
- The ScottoKatana Keyboard Is Cutting-Edge
- 1D Fireworks Are Nice And Quiet
- Remote-Control Kinetic Sand Table Uses A Single Arduino
- [Thomas Sanladerer] Gets New Threads
- Using Sound Waves As A Fire Extinguisher
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Kristina’s Picks:
Well, if the (large mouth) bass is still alive and wet, its tail could probably swat out a small fire.
When you have n correct answers for the secret sound, and generate a random number from a random string of digits to draw a winner, you need to do (modulo n)+1 to be fair, otherwise, entry number n will never be the winner.
I’ve been listening to older podcasts waiting for Elliot to generate a 0 using this method to discover this but wasn’t sure if he had already been incrementing by 1 or not. To what I’ve heard so far, he hasn’t produced any winners at n-1 which would be somewhat sad for entrant #n but I haven’t gone back very far
What’s that sound didn’t have an intro and so I missed it! Had to rewind 3 times to realize I have no idea what is it lol.