It might sound like a joke, but this week, Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by asking how you keep a Polish train from running. Like always, the answer appears to be a properly modulated radio signal. After a fiery tale about Elliot’s burned beans, the discussion moves over to the adventure that is home CNC ownership, the final chapter in the saga of the Arecibo Telescope, and the unexpected longevity of Microsoft’s Kinect. Then it’s on to the proper way to cook a PCB, FFmpeg in the browser, and a wooden cyberdeck that’s worth carrying around. Finally, they’ll go over the next generation of diode laser engravers, and take a look back at the origins of the lowly breadboard.
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Polish Railways Fall Victim To Cheap Radio Attack
Add Full-Color Images To Your 3D Prints With Toner Transfer
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Impulse Buying A 3040 CNC Machine, What Could Go Wrong?
Blame It On The Sockets: Forensic Analysis Of The Arecibo Collapse
NSF Releases Video Of Arecibo’s Final Moments
The Battle For Arecibo Has Been Lost
Tensions High After Second Failed Cable At Arecibo
Damage To Arecibo Leaves Gaping Hole In Astronomy
Going To Extremes To Block YouTube Ads
GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room
Microsoft Discontinues Kinect, Again
Kinect Gave Us A Preview Of The Future, Though Not The One It Intended
PCB Toaster Oven Solders Your Boards
Elliot’s Picks:
Kitchen Steganography With Turmeric
Explore FFmpeg From The Comfort Of Your Browser
Card/IO Is A Credit Card-Sized, Open Source ECG Monitor
Tom’s Picks:
Checking Belt Tension Gets Easier For (Some) Prusa 3D Printers
This CRT Luggable Makes Sense
Take A PEEK At This 3D Printer
Review: WAINLUX K8, A Diode Laser That’s Ready To Work
Retro Gadgets: The 1974 Breadboard Project
