Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams marvel at a week packed full of great hardware hacks. Do you think the engineers who built the earliest home computers knew that their work would be dissected decades later for conference talks full of people hungry to learn the secret sauce? The only thing better than the actual engineering of the Commodore floppy drive is the care with which the ultimate hardware talk unpacks it all! We look upon a couple of EV hacks — one that replaces the inverter in a Leaf and the other details the design improvements to Telsa’s self-hiding door handles. Before we get to medieval surgery and USB-C power delivery, we stop for a look at a way to take snapshots of Game Boy gameplay and an electric plane engine that looks radial but is all gears.
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Farewell Sir Clive Sinclair; Inspired A Generation Of Engineers
Interactive Clips For Game Boy: Sit Back And Watch Or Take Control
The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More
The Ultimate Game Boy Talk
34C3: Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
Electric “Radial” RC Aircraft Motor
Open Source Hot Rod Mod Gives More Power To EV Owners
Tesla Door Handle Improvements
Tesla Model S Handle Dispenses Beer; Hides When Done
Tracking Maximum Power Point For Solar Efficiency
Mike’s Picks
Banksy-Like Stock Tracker Shreds Your Money When The Market’s Down
Mastering Stop Motion Through Machine Learning
Lego Submarine Gets Balloon Ballast System
Elliot’s Picks:
Bringing The Quake Flicker To Life With A Hacked Light
Broadband Across The Congo
DIY Laser Speckle Imaging Uncovers Hidden Details
Powering Up With USB: Untangling The USB Power Delivery Standards
Type-C CC and VCONN Signals – Developer Help
