Hackaday Podcast 166: Engraving with the Sun, Explosive Welding, Juggling Chainsaws, and Torturing Wago Connectors

Hackaday Podcast 166: Engraving with the Sun, Explosive Welding, Juggling Chainsaws, and Torturing Wago Connectors

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they dive into the last week of Hackaday articles. If you love things that go boom, you won’t want to miss the discussion about explosive welding. Ever use the sun to burn something with a magnifying glass? Now you can CNC that, if you dare. We’ll take a quick trip through the darkroom and look at analog-digital photography as well as a tactical enlarger you can build, watch someone do terrible things to Wago and Wago-adjacent connectors, and talk about how suborbital chainsaws can be leveraged into a mass storage medium. Not enough for you? Then don’t miss our bafflement at one corporation’s attitude toward 3D printing, the secret sauce of resin casting, and our rundown of the 2022 Sci-Fi Contest winners.

 

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Episode 166 Show Notes:

News This Week:

2022 Sci-Fi Contest: The Winners Are In
Ingenuity Mars helicopter snaps amazing photos of Perseverance rover’s landing gear (video)

What’s that Sound?

If you think you know what this week’s sound was (like Dan did!) then write down your guess, your e-mail, and your handle on this form right here!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

No-Laser CNC Engraver Is Something New Under The Sun

Scratch-Built CO2 Laser Tube Kicks Off A Laser Cutter Build
Selective Solar Sintering With Sand

Testing 7 Wago-like Wire Connectors For Science And Fire

Print-in-Place Connectors Aim To Make Wiring Easier

Omnibot Shows Off Over A Decade Of CNC Prowess
Machine Learning Helps You Get In Shape While Working A Desk Job
Digital To Analog In The Darkroom
Simple Photo Enlarger Makes Great Addition To Any Darkroom
Hard(er) Drives: Impractical, Slow, Amazing, And Incredible

Quick Hacks:

Elliot’s Picks:

Hackaday Prize 2022: Glass Tube Solar Thermionic Converters
CAD Sketcher, It’s Parametric CAD For Blender
Drone Filming Chile’s Urban Bike Race Takes Some Fancy Radio Gear

Dan’s Picks:

All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Flow: Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
The Apollo Digital Ranging System: More Than Meets The Eye
Genaille’s Rods: When Paint Sticks Do Math

Can’t-Miss Articles:

Explosion Welding Goes Off With A Bang
The Honda Takedown: How A Global Brand Failed To Read The Room