This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by acknowledging an incredible milestone: 20 years of Hackaday! Well, probably. When a website gets to be this old, it’s a little hard to nail down when exactly things kicked off, but it seems like September of 2004 is about right. They’ll also go over the latest updates for the fast-approaching Hackaday Supercon, and announce the winner of another tough What’s That Sound challenge.
From there, the conversation makes its way from the fascinating electrically-activated adhesive holding the latest iPhone together to pulsed-power lasers and a high flying autonomous glider designed and built by a teenager. You’ll also hear about 3D printing on acrylic, home biohacking, and the Tiny Tool Kit Manifesto. Stick around to the end to hear the duo discuss the fine art of good documentation, and an incredible bodge job from Arya Voronova.
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 290 Show Notes:
News:
- Hackaday Turns 20-ish!
- 2024 Hackaday Superconference Speakers, Round Two
What’s that Sound?
- Congrats to [Davip] for getting a punch-tape reader/writer right.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Find My Power Tool Battery
- Hands-on With New IPhone’s Electrically-Released Adhesive
- Most Powerful Laser Diodes, Now More Powerful
- Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open?
- 3D Printing On Top Of Laser Cut Acrylic
- StratoSoar Glider Flies Itself From High Altitude
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Tom’s Picks:
Okay, what’s the story on the paper tape machine?
I have the same question!
Why is it hard to pin down when Hackaday started ( at least started publishing)
One of the ways the backend (frontend?) generates URL’s is by date. So the URL below shows the last pages from September 2004
https://hackaday.com/2004/09/
You can also add a day, that shows the articles published on that day, but you don’t get newer / older buttons. From the link above you can go though older pages, and then on page 4 it goes no further, and the first article is apparently:
https://hackaday.com/2004/09/05/radioshack-phone-dialer-red-box/