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Hackaday Podcast Episode 292: Stainless Steel Benchies, Lego Turing Machines, and a Digital Camera Made of Pure DIY Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com

Here we are in October, improbably enough, and while the leaves start to fall as the goblins begin to gather, Elliot and Dan took a break from the madness to talk about all the wonderful hacks that graced our pages this week. If there was a theme this week, it was long-term projects, like the multiple years one hacker spent going down dead ends in the quest for DIY metal 3D printing. Not to be outdone, another hacker spent seven years building a mirrorless digital camera that looks like a commercial product. And getting a solderless PCB to do the blinkenlight thing took a long time too.

Looking to eliminate stringing in your 3D prints? Then you’ll want to avoid the “pause and attach” approach, which intentionally creates strings in your prints. Wondering if you can 3D print bearings? You can, but you probably shouldn’t unless you have a particular use in mind. And what happens when you have an infinitely large supply of Lego? Why, you build a Turing machine on steroids, of course.

Finally, we take a look at this week’s “Can’t-Miss” articles with a look into plastic recycling and why we can’t have nice things yet, and we take a trip out into orbit and examine the ins and outs of Lagrange points.

And a little mea culpa from the editing desk: Sorry the podcast is coming out late this week. Audacity ate my files. If you’re ever in a similar circumstance, you can probably halfway save your bacon with audacity-project-tools. Ask me how I know.

 

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Episode 292 Show Notes:

News:

The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked

What’s that Sound?

It was an old treadle Singer sewing machine, guessed correctly by [Charlie].  Congrats!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

An Open Source Mirrorless Camera You’d Want To Use
First Benchies In Stainless Steel, With Lasers

Ender 3 Meets MIG Welder To Make A Metal Benchy — Kind Of

See The “Pause-and-Attach” Technique For 3D Printing In Action

3D Printed String Vase Shows What’s Possible
Intentional Filament Stringing Helps Santa Soar
Wonderful Foldable Printable Dodecahedron

The Turing Machine Made Real, In LEGO

TMD-1 Makes Turing Machine Concepts Easy To Understand
TMD-2: A Bigger, Better, More Collaborative Turing Machine
TMD-3: Clever Hall Sensor Hack Leads To Better Turing Demo

Towards Solderless PCB Prototyping

Open Source Pick And Place Has A $450 BOM Cost
(Re)designing The LumenPnP Tape Feeder

3D Printed Bearings With Filament Rollers

Quick Hacks:

Elliot’s Picks

Fail Of The Week: The Case Of The Curiously Colored Streetlights
That’ll Go Over Like A Cement Airplane
What Happened To Duracell PowerCheck?

Dan’s Picks:

The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
GPS Tracking In The Trackless Land
V-Cut Vias Test Your Whole Panel At Once

Can’t-Miss Articles:

Lagrange Points And Why You Want To Get Stuck At Them
Recycling Tough Plastics Into Precursors With Some Smart Catalyst Chemistry

Big Chemistry Series

 

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