Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look back on a great week of hardware hacking. What a time to be alive when you can use open source tools to decode signals from a probe that has long since left our solar system! We admire two dirt-cheap builds, one to measure current draw in mains power, another to mill small parts with great precision for only a few bucks. A display built from a few hundred 7-segment modules begs the question: who says pixels need to be the same size? We jaw on the concept of autonomous electric cargo ships, and marvel at the challenges of hitting an asteroid with a space probe. All that and we didn’t even mention using GLaDOS as a personal assistant robot, but that’s on the docket too!
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!Direct download (60 MB or so.)
That sound was The Secret of Monkey Island theme
[Lee] was randomly drawn from eight correct responses and wins the shirt!
Towards The Perfect Coin Flip: The NIST Randomness Beacon
Elliot’s (horrendous) random drawing one-liner
2021 Hackaday Remoticon: Call For Proposals
German Experiment Shows Horses Beating Local Internet Connections
Compared to… what?
A Cheap Compact Linear Slide
How The PS5’s Genuinely Clever Adaptive Triggers Work
GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
Breakthrough Listen – Wikipedia
GNU Radio Conference 2021 (20-24 September 2021)
What Is The Tianwen-1 Probe Saying?
Using Homebrew Coils To Measure Mains Current, And Taking The Circuit Breaker Challenge
GLaDOS Voice Assistant Passive-Aggressively Automates Home
Machine Learning & Open Source Speech-to-text Engine Development Project
What’s Cooler Than A 7-Segment Display? A 7200-Segment Display!
Elliot’s Picks
3D Objects Without Scanning
Vektor Kollektor Inspector
Useless Machine Is A Clock
Mike’s Picks:
THICC GBA SP Mod Gets Easy Install Ahead Of Release
Making A Car Key From A Ratcheting Wrench
Putting Thousands Of Minecraft Players On The Same Server
The World’s First Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship Is Due To Set Sail
NASA Are Squaring Up Against The Asteroid Threat
