This week, we’re shaking things up a little, with Tom Nardi still in the host seat, and someone besides Al Williams in the other, namely Kristina Panos.
In Hackaday news, we have a new Frikkin’ Lasers Challenge going on now, although we acknowledge that no one can actually enter their project into it at the moment. We hope to have that fixed in short order. Procrastinators, disregard.
You’ll have to wait another week for the triumphant return of What’s That Sound, but we do have an audio mailbag for you this week. Thanks, Dillon!
We look at loading SEGA games from a vinyl record, discuss a really cool project that puts live plane data on your ceiling, and debate the name ‘PopTuber’. We also discuss DIY routers, and stress over the future of electronic shelf labels.
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 372 Show Notes:
News:
Mailbag:
- Dillon asks the crew whether they take notes while working on projects, and how. And how!
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Texas Instruments Changes The NE5532 And Others Into Incompatible Versions
- Loading Sega Genesis Games Off A Vinyl Record
- Make Your Ceiling Disappear With ADS-B And Short-Throw Projector
- Like A Wire Bender, But For Pop Tubes
- An RGB Keyboard For Your Hackaday Communicator Badge
- DIY Ceramic Circuit Boards Surely Count As Solarpunk
Quick Hacks:
- Tom’s Picks:
- Kristina’s Picks:
What’s with the 120 Hz hum that fades in and out of the whole episode?
We had that problem with our bassist humming along with the music. The quick and simple solution was to turn his mike off :)
Electronic shelf labels was a thing at ICA, one of Sweden’s grocery store chains, at least the one where I lived, in the 90’s, maybe into the 00’s. There was no e-ink of course, they were 7-segment LCD, and if I remember correctly they had one big segment covering a red background, that would flash slowly to indicate lowered price. There were dome-shaped things in the ceiling with rows of IR LED:s to update them. I don’t know why they stopped using them, but they switched to paper and haven’t gone back to electronic yet.