What did Elliot Williams and Al Williams read on Hackaday last week? Tune in and find out. After a bit of news, [Vik Oliver] chimes in with some deep PLA knowledge. Then the topic changed to pressure advance measurements, SDRs, making super-resolution PCBs with a fiber laser, and more.
Want to 3D print wire strippers? A robot arm? Or just make your own Z-80? Those hacks are in there, too.
For the long articles, we talked about old tech, including the :CueCat and the Iomega Zip Drive. Let us know if you had either one in the comments.
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
Direct Pressure Advance Measurement For Fast Calibration
BambuLab eddy sensor
Why strain gauge?
Building A $50 SDR With 20 MHz Bandwidth
Using A Fiber Laser To Etch 0.1 Mm PCB Traces
Laser Etching Printed Circuit Boards
Why Are You Still Making PCBs?
Supercon 2024: Quick High-Feature Boards With The Circuit Graver
Build This Open-Source Graphics Calculator
Build This Open-Source Graphics Calculator
The Most Intricate Of Freeform Digital Clocks
Bend It Like Bhoite: Circuit Sculptures Shatter The Bounds Of Flatland
PicoZ80 Is A Drop-in Replacement For Everyone’s Favorite Zilog CPU
770 Zilog Z80 :: Quicker, easier and cheaper to make your own chip!
Retrocomputing For $4 With A Z80
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Elliot’s Picks:
3D Printed Wire Stripper Uses PLA Blades
Hot Wire Strippers
Electric Motorcycles Don’t Have To Be Security Nightmares, But This One Was
Demonstrating Gray Codes With Industrial Display
3D Printed Robot Arm Built For Learning Purposes
Al’s Picks:
Arduino Code on My 8051: It’s More Likely Than You Think
Analog Video From An 8-Bit Microcontroller
A Candle-Powered Game Boy For Post-Apocalyptic Tetris
Can’t-Miss Articles:
Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster
From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega
Storage Media Forgotten
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