Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they take a whirlwind tour of the best and brightest hacks of the last week. This episode starts off with an update about that Soviet Venus lander that’s been buzzing the planet, then moves on to best practices for designing 3D printed parts, giving Chrome OS devices a new lease on life, and a unique display technology that brings a Star Wars prop to life.
You’ll also hear about designing new motherboards for beloved old computers, why you might want to put your calipers on a flatbed scanner, and a NASA science satellite that’s putting in double duty as a wartime reporter. Finally, they’ll cover the interesting physics of meteor burst communications, and the latest developments in the ongoing libogc license kerfuffle.
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!
Episode 321 Show Notes:
News:
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Best Practices For FDM Printing
- Turning A Chromebox Into A Proper Power-Efficient PC
- Let The Wookie Win With This DIY Holochess Table
- A Brain Transplant For A Philips Smart Lamp
- Tearing Down A Forgotten Video Game
- Another Old ThinkPad Gets A New Motherboard
Quick Hacks:
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Correction on the meteor bounce portion of the talk: meteoroid bounce comms don’t bounce off of the meteoroids, but off of the ionized air trail they leave in their wake. As such, they don’t have to actually track the meteor, but they do stick around for many milliseconds.
Right. Thanks!
I also kept saying “comet” occasionally, because of the COMET acronym thing… I had to edit that out.
Props for all Elliot and all cohosts, always love Tom’s energy. Kristina has been killing it lately as well