This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the tubes to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week.
In Hackaday news, get your Supercon 2025 tickets while they’re hot! Also, the One Hertz Challenge ticks on, but time is running out. You have until Tuesday, August 19th to show us what you’ve got, so head over to Hackaday.IO and get started now. Finally, its the end of eternal September as AOL discontinues dial-up service after all these years.
On What’s That Sound, Kristina got sort of close, but this is neither horseshoes nor hand grenades. Can you get it? If so, you could win a limited edition Hackaday Podcast t-shirt!
After that, it’s on to the hacks and such, beginning with a talking robot that uses typewriter tech to move its mouth. We take a look at hacking printed circuit boards to create casing and instrument panels for a PDP-1 replica. Then we explore a fluid simulation business card, witness a caliper shootout, and marvel at one file in six formats. Finally, it’s a telephone twofer as we discuss the non-hack-ability of the average smart phone, and learn about what was arguably the first podcast.
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 333 Show Notes:
News:
- Get Your Tickets For Supercon 2025 Now!
- Announcing The 2025 Hackaday One Hertz Challenge
- End Of The Eternal September, As AOL Discontinues Dial-Up
What’s that Sound?
- Think you know what the sound is? Fill out the form for your shot at a shirt.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Josef Prusa Warns Open Hardware 3D Printing Is Dead
- Talking Robot Uses Typewriter Tech For Mouth
- Hacking Printed Circuit Board To Create Casing And Instrument Panels
- That’s No Moon, Er, Selectric
- The WHY 2025 Badge And Its 18650s
- LEDs That Flow: A Fluid Simulation Business Card
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Kristina’s Picks:
I wish the little embedded player thingy had a volume control. The volume level of the podcast is much higher than other things that play on my system. I have to turn the system volume down, but then other things get turned down too much.
The second year Open Sauce badge ran traces through the top section of the lanyard hole. While the metal lanyard didn’t cause a short it did/could scratch away at the trace and then break the circuit.