Hackaday Podcast 164: Vintage NASA Soldering, Mouse Bites, ATTiny85 Graphics, and PVC Pontoons

Hackaday Podcast 164: Vintage NASA Soldering, Mouse Bites, ATTiny85 Graphics, and PVC Pontoons

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they review the most interesting hacks and stories of the previous week. This time we’ll start things off by talking about the return of in-person events, and go over several major conventions and festivals that you should add to your calendar now. Then we’ll look at a NASA training film from the Space Race, an interesting radio-controlled quirk that Tesla has built into their cars for some reason, a very promising autonomous boat platform, and some high performance visuals generated by an ATtiny85. Stick around to find out what happens with an interplanetary probe looses its ride to space, and why the best new enclosure for your Raspberry Pi 4 might be a surveillance camera.

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Episode 164 Show Notes:

News This Week:

Warm Up Your Extruders, RepRap Festivals Are Back
About – 2022 Open Hardware Summit
Vintage Computer Festival East – Vintage Computer Federation

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Interesting Hacks of the Week:

NASA Hardware Techniques: Soldering Space Electronics Like It’s 1958

Specifications You Should Read: The NASA Workmanship Standards
Basic Soldering Lesson 1 – “Solder & Flux” – YouTube

Just In Case You Want To Charge Your Neighbor’s Tesla
Best Ways To Make PCB Breakaway Tabs, Revealed

Hackaday Superconference: Nick Poole On Boggling The Boardhouse

Robotic Boat Rides High On PVC Pipe Pontoons
Mindblowing Graphics From An ATtiny85

GitHub – Antiemes/Gravity_Waves: Gravity waves Arduino demo

Coin Acceptors Are Higher-Tech Than You Think

Quick Hacks:

Elliot’s Picks:

Skip The Shipping, Print Your Own Cable Chains
Stress-Testing An Arduino’s EEPROM
Hall Effect Module Knows Where Your Motor Is

Tom’s Picks:

Astrophotography On The Game Boy Camera
SDR Listens In To Your Tires
Wordle Comes To The Nokia N-Gage Thanks To New SDK

Can’t-Miss Articles:

Mothballing Rosalind: How To Put A Space Mission In Storage
Review: Vizy Linux-Powered AI Camera