Another all-European podcast for you this week, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for an evening looking at the past week in Hackaday. And this week there is a particularly good selection to look at.

A while back we showed you a project that put synthetic aperture radar on a drone, generating extremely detailed imaging of the terrain beneath it. This week we had an update, in which an ingenious positioning accuracy fix gave it an astonishing increase in resolution. On top of that project we have 3D lightfield image display with the unexpected help of a Nipkow mechanical TV scanning drum. Geting your own microprocessor manufactured, DOOM in a database server, and a comprehensive array of unusual sensors in a tricorder project complete the picture.

Finally we have a couple of space stories and Jenny describing the preserved industrial delights of the Ruhr valley in Germany. You’ll want to go there, but first you’ll want to listen to the podcast.

Download it yourself in MP3. It’s wafer thin.

Episode 389 Show Notes:

News:

• No More Windows For The Dutch Government, Ze Kiezen Nu Linux

Mailbag:

• Thanks [Jason] for your Mailbag theme music submission. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging
• You Can Make A Microprocessor That’s All Your Own
• Electromechanical TV Goes 3D With This Light-field Display
  • Mechanical Image Acquisition With A Nipkow Disc
  • GitHub – Jenny’s Nipkow disk and mirror drum code
• Abusing SQL To Play DOOM
• Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science
  • High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields
  • Gamma Ray Spectroscopy The Pomelo Way

• The Whole Computer Is Vim
• Cheap Yellow Display Dreams Of PDA
• A JavaScript OS For The ESP32

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Sheety Turns Spreadsheets Into Binaries, For Some Reason
  • Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot
  • Testing Coulomb’s Law And Similar Fundamentals Yourself Remains Tricky
• Jenny’s Picks:
  • colibri: CERN VHDL Common Library released for Everyone to Use – Newsletter of the EP department
  • Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
  • Apple Finally Made AirPods Repairable… Sort Of

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission
• Lagrange Points And Why You Want To Get Stuck At Them
• Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord