It was quite the cornucopia of goodness this week as Elliot and Dan sat down to hash over the week in hardware hacking. We started with the exciting news that the Hackaday Prize is back — already? — for the tenth year running! The first round, Re-Engineering Education, is underway now, and we’re already seeing some cool entries come in. The Prize was announced at Hackday Berlin, about which Elliot waxed a bit too. Speaking of wax, if you’re looking to waterproof your circuits, that’s just one of many coatings you might try. If you’re diagnosing a problem with a chip, a cheap camera can give your microscope IR vision. Then again, you might just use your Mark I peepers to decode a ROM. Is your FDM filament on the wrong spool? We’ve got an all-mechanical solution for that. We’ll talk about tools of the camera operator’s trade, the right to repair in Europe, Korean-style toasty toes, BGA basics, and learn just what the heck a bloom filter is — or is it a Bloom filter?
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The 2023 Hackaday Prize Is Ten, First Challenge Is Educational
Hackaday Berlin Was Bonkers
Interoperable Randomness Beacons
Elliot’s NIST-fueled random number generator script, as used on Hackaday.
Congrats to [GUI Louie] for guessing the impact driver!
Creating A Game Boy ROM From Pictures
[Bunnie] Peeks Inside ICs With IR
An example of Shahriar’s X-ray teardowns
Clever Mechanism Powers This All-Mechanical Filament Respooler
Bloom Filters
Bloom Filters by Example
Who Needs Gasoline When You’ve Got Sodium?
Kino Wheels Gives You A Hand Learning Camera Operation
Pro camera pan-tilt head — funny how it popped up in my feed
A Survey Of Long-Term Waterproofing Options
This Way To The Ingress: Keeping Stuff Dry And Clean With IP And NEMA
Elliot’s Picks:
Robot 3D Prints Giant Metal Parts With Induction Heat
Long-Distance Gaming Over Packet Radio
Magic 8 Ball Provides Tech Support
Dan’s Picks:
Ondol: Korean Underfloor Heating
Enormous Metal Sculpture Becomes An Antenna
The Keychain 6809
Europe’s Proposed Right-To-Repair Law: A Game Changer, Or Business As Usual?
Working With BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, And Rework
