Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams reflect on the fact that, as humans, we have–at most–two eyes and no warp drives. While hacking might not be the world’s most dangerous hobby, you do get to work with dangerous voltages, temperatures, and frickin’ lasers. Light features prominently, as the guys talk about LED data interfaces, and detecting faster-than-light travel.
There’s also a USB sniffer, abusing hot glue, and some nostalgia topics ranging from CRT graphics to Apollo workstations (which have nothing directly to do with NASA). The can’t miss articles this week cover hacking you and how you make the red phone ring in the middle of a nuclear war.
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!
As always, please download the file to archive in your doomsday bunker.
Episode 283 Show Notes:
News:
- Tickets For Supercon 2024 Go On Sale Now!
- Taco Bell To Bring Voice AI Ordering To Hundreds Of US Drive-Throughs
What’s that Sound?
- Al was unsuccessful, but if you know the correct answer, submit it and you could win a limited edition Hackaday Podcast T-shirt.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Getting A Laser Eye Injury And How To Avoid It
- Detecting Faster Than Light Travel By Extraterrestrials
- Programming Tiny Blinkenlight Projects With Light
- Need A USB Sniffer? Use Your Pico!
- Pixel Art And The Myth Of The CRT Effect
- Over-molding Wires With Hot Glue And 3D Printed Molds
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Al’s Picks:
You kept mentioning SAO but …what is it?
I came here hoping to find that too. Ended up finding the answer elsewhere: https://blog.wokwi.com/capture-the-flag-shitty-add-on/
Hackaday.io is actually the canonical reference for SAO’s.
https://hackaday.io/project/52950-shitty-add-ons
We’re slightly older than 16 now, and are tired of having our mouths washed out with soap, so we’re dropping “shitty”, but otherwise the six pins remain the same.