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Hackaday Podcast Episode 255: Balloon on the Moon, Nanotech Goblets, and USB All the Way [Hackaday]
This week, Dan joined Elliot for a review of the best and brightest hacks of the week in Episode 0xFF, which both of us found unreasonably exciting; it’s a little like the base-2 equivalent of watching the odometer flip over to 99,999. If you know, you know. We had quite a bumper crop of coolness this week, which strangely included two artifacts from ancient Rome: a nanotech goblet of colloidal gold and silver, and a perplexing dodecahedron that ends up having a very prosaic explanation — probably. We talked about a weird antenna that also defies easy description, saw a mouse turned into the world’s worst camera, and learned how 3D-printed signs are a whole lot easier than neon, and not half bad looking either. As always, we found time to talk about space, like the legacy of Ingenuity and whatever became of inflatable space habitats. Back on Earth, there’s DIY flux, shorts that walk you up the mountain, and more about USB-C than you could ever want to know.
And don’t forget that to celebrate Episode 256 next week, we’ll be doing a special AMA segment where we’ll get all the regular podcast crew together to answer your questions about life, the universe, and everything. If you’ve got a burning question for Elliot, Tom, Kristina, Al, or Dan, put it down in the comment section and we’ll do our best to extinguish it.
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Episode 255 Show Notes:
News:
- Next week, in honor of Podcast Episode 0 (or “256” if you’ve got the bits to spare), we’ll be having an Ask-Us-Anything, with as many of the Podcast regulars as we can fit onto one microphone. If you have questions for us, put ’em in the comments below!
What’s that Sound?
- Congrats to [Ed from Virginia] who won a Podcast T-shirt by identifying the start-up music from Donkey Kong.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Ingenuity May Be Grounded, But Its Legacy Will Be Grand
- A Vintage Monitor Lives Again With A New Heart
- Getting Started With USB-C And Common Pitfalls With Charging And Data Transfer
- A Look At 3D Printed Professional LED Signage
- Human-Interfacing Devices: The Descriptor Heist
- USB HID Usage Tables (PDF)
- Nanotechnology In Ancient Rome? There Is Evidence
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