Hackaday Podcast Ep 331: Clever Machine Tools, Storing Data in Birds, and the Ultimate Cyberdeck Jenny List | usagoldmines.com

Another week, another Hackaday podcast, and for this one Elliot is joined by Jenny List, fresh from the BornHack hacker camp in Denmark.

There’s a definite metal working flavour to this week’s picks, with new and exciting CNC techniques and a selective electroplater that can transfer bitmaps to metal. But worry not, there’s plenty more to tease the ear, with one of the nicest cyberdecks we’ve ever seen, and a bird that can store images in its song.

Standout quick hacks are a synth that makes sounds from Ethernet packets, and the revelation that the original PlayStation is now old enough to need replacement motherboards. Finally we take a closer look at the huge effort that goes in to monitoring America’s high voltage power infrastructure, and some concerning privacy news from the UK. Have a listen!

Episode 331 Show Notes:

News:

• We’ve reache the halfway point: Announcing The 2025 Hackaday One Hertz Challenge

What’s that Sound?

• If you know what this week’s sound is, enter your best guess here.

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Painting In Metal With Selective Electroplating
• A Dual-Screen Cyberdeck To Rule Them All
• Human In The Loop: Compass CNC Redefines Workspace Limits
• AVIF: The Avian Image Format
• Skateboard Wheels Add Capabilities To Plasma Cutter
• Engrave A Cylinder Without A Rotary Attachment? No Problem!
• The LumenPnP Pasting Utility: Never Buy Solder Stencils Again?

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia
  • Listening To Ethernet Via Eurorack
  • Read QR Codes On The Cheap
  • 2025 One-Hertz Challenge: A Clock Sans Silicon
• Jenny’s Picks:
  • A Non-Sony Playstation Motherboard Replacement
  • A Cable Modem, The Way All Network Gear Should Be Mounted
  • A Very Tidy Handheld Pi Terminal Indeed

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Power Line Patrols: The Grid’s Eye In The Sky
• When Online Safety Means Surrendering Your ID, What Can You Do?

This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak

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