The answer is: Elliot Williams, Al Williams, and a dozen or so great hacks. The question? What do you get this week on the Hackaday podcast? This week’s hacks ran from smart ring hacking, to computerized tattoos. Keyboards, PCBs, and bicycles all make appearances, too.
Be sure to try to guess the “What’s that sound?” You could score a cool Hackaday Podcast T.
For the can’t miss this week, Hackaday talks about how to dispose of the body in outer space and when setting your ship’s clock involved watching a ball drop.
Episode 307 Show Notes:
News:
What’s that Sound?
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Hacking The 22€ BLE SR08 Smart Ring With Built-In Display
- Do, Dare Or Don’t? Getting Inked By A 3D Printer
- A Closer Look At The Tanmatsu
- Electroplating DIY PCB Vias At Home Without Chemical Baths
- Bicycle Adds Reliability With Second Chain
- Custom PCB Is A Poor Man’s Pick And Place
- What Is The Hour? It’s XVII O’ Clock
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks
- Al’s Picks:
Can’t-Miss Articles:
Back-pedal shifting goes back more than 100 years, but only one chain.
(You almost certainly also don’t understand how back pedal braking works either, we’re just used to them)
This is probably true!
The killer tiny Linux machine should have been the BL808 on the Sipeed M1S. $30 for a Linux capable module with a camera and smartwatch -ish display. But the BL tool chain was super buggy, took forever to get promised features (I was watching for a wifi driver for a couple of years), and was a huge pain to set up. It’s hard for someone to do a slick tool chain like Arduino did for MCU dev boards because a ton of the drivers are undocumented blobs.
Unfortunately that’s just how it is with a ton of the cheap Linux SoCs. Locked down tool chains, horrible documentation, and user hostility unless you’re ordering thousands. Until someone is willing to pony up the big bucks to develop and run a chip and enable the community to build on it, the closest we’ll get is the rpi zero. The closest you’ll get is the RockChips, and even their up streaming process can be like pulling teeth.