Friday, 28 May, 2021 UTC
Summary
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recount a week of awesome hacks. One you might have missed involves a Roku-based smart TV that was rooted and all secrets laid bare for the sole purpose of making an Ambilight setup work with it. We take a look at a creative blade-tracking system for a scrollsaw CNC project, and a robot arm that brings non-flat layers to 3D printing and envisions composite material printing. There’s a great template for video glitching using inexpensive VGA to CGA converter boards, cleanly squeezed into a nice enclosure. We are a bit giddy for the omniwheel robot designs [James Bruton] has been showing off. And we finish out the show with a great conversation happening this week on Hackaday: people from throughout the community share how the chip shortage is affecting their projects.
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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What’s that Sound?
- We had two correct answers, it was the hard drive click of death.
- Congratulations to [Jon] who was chosen with a coin flip from the correct responses and sent a Hackaday Podcast shirt.
New This Week:
- Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
- #Hackaday channel on Kiwi IRC
- New Part Day: ESP32-WROOM-DA
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Perfecting A 3D Printed Camera Motion Control Rig
- Pan Tilt Slider / PanTiltSlide-nodeJS · GitLab
- DIY Motion Control Rig – Rotary Plate – grbl ESP-32 – YouTube
- 3D Printing Omni-Balls For Robot Locomotion
- Mechanical Design of “Omni-Ball”: Spherical Wheel for Holonomic Omnidirectional Motion
- Testing Ball-Shaped Wheels on an Omni-Directional Robot – YouTube
- Three-Wheeled Turret Car Looks Like It Should Be Orbiting Thunderdome
- RAM Fiddling Turns VGA Converter Into Video Synth
- Scanimate Analog Video Synths Produced Oceans Of Motion Graphics
- YOVOZOL – YouTube
- Optical Sensor Keeps Eye On Wandering Saw Blade
- CNC Scroll Saw Makes Promising First Cuts
- Robot Arm Adds Freedom To 3D Printer
- 3D Printering: Non-Planar Layer FDM
- 3D Printing Without Support Material Thanks To An Additional Axis
- Roku TV Hacked To Run Philips Ambilight Setup
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks
- NeoPill Is The NeoPixel Emulator You’ve Always Wanted
- Ground Effect Drone Flies Autonomously
- A High Power Wood Rocket In 5 Days
- Mike’s Picks
- Simple MicroPython Game Is A 30 Minute Game Dev Course
- One Instruction To Rule Them All: C Compiler Emits Only MOV
- Terminal Magic With Notcurses
Can’t-Miss Articles:
- Getting Started With Aluminum Extrusions
- How To Build Anything Out Of Aluminum Extrusion And 3D Printed Brackets
- Ask Hackaday: How Is The Chip Shortage Affecting You?