Hackaday Podcast 188: Zapping Cockroaches, Tricking AIs, Antique 3D Scanning, and Grinding Chips to QFN [Hackaday]
It’s déjà vu all over again as Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams gets together with Staff Writer Dan Maloney to look over the best hacks from the past week. If you’ve got a fear of giant cockroaches, don’t worry; we’ll only mention the regular ones when we talk about zapping them with lasers. What do you need to shrinkify an NES? Just a little sandpaper and a lot of finesse.
Did you know that 3D scanning is (sort of) over a century old? Or that the first real microcomputer dates all the way back to 1972 — and isn’t one of those blinkenlight deals? And watch out for what you tell GPT-3 to ignore — it might just take you very seriously. We’ll touch on solar-powered cameras, a compressor of compressors, and talk about all the unusual places to find lithium batteries for your projects. It’s an episode so good you might just want to listen to it twice!
(In case you’re wondering about all this “twice” stuff — Elliot forgot to hit record on the first take and we had to do the entire podcast over again. Oh, the humanity!)
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Episode 188 Show Notes:
News:
What’s that Sound?
- Congratulations to [J. Patrick]!
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- In A Way, 3D Scanning Is Over A Century Old
- Laser Zaps Cockroaches Over One Meter
- DVD Drives Turned Into Microscopes
- Making A Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips Into…QFN?
- What’s Old Is New Again: GPT-3 Prompt Injection Attack Affects AI
- The First Microcomputer: The Q1
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Dan’s Picks:
Can’t-Miss Articles:
- The State Of The SBC Interface Ecosystem, Is It Time To Design A Standard?
- Lithium-Ion Batteries Are Easy To Find