This week Elliot Williams was joined by fellow Europe-based Hackaday staffer Jenny List, to record the Hackaday Podcast as the dusk settled on a damp spring evening.
On the agenda first was robotic sport, as a set of bipedal robots competed in a Chinese half-marathon. Our new Robot overlords may have to wait a while before they are fast enough chase us meatbags away, but it demonstrated for us how such competitions can be used to advance the state of the art.
The week’s stand-out hacks included work on non-planar slicing to improve strength of 3D prints. It’s safe to say that the Cartesian 3D printer has matured as a device, but this work proves there’s plenty more in the world of 3D printing to be developed. Then there was a beautiful record cutting lathe project, far more than a toy and capable of producing good quality stereo recordings.
Meanwhile it’s always good to see the price of parts come down, and this time it’s the turn of LIDAR sensors. There’s a Raspberry Pi project capable of astounding resolution, for a price that wouldn’t have been imaginable only recently. Finally we retrned to 3D printing, with an entirely printable machine, including the motors and the hot end. It’s a triumph of printed engineering, and though it’s fair to say that you won’t be using it to print anything for yourself, we expect some of the very clever techniques in use to feature in many other projects.
The week’s cant-miss articles came from Maya Posch with a reality check for lovers of physical media, and Dan Maloney with a history of x-ray detection. Listen to it all below, and you’ll find all the links at the bottom of the page.
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Episode 318 Show Notes:
News:
China Hosts Robot MarathonAnnouncing The Hackaday Pet Hacks Contest
What’s that Sound:
Congrats to [Bultza] for knowing what that sound was better than we did
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
Non-planar Slicing Is For The Birds Unique 3D Printer Has A Print Head With A Twist3D Printering: Non-Planar Layer FDMA Universal, Non-planar Slicer For 3D Printing Is Worth Thinking AboutImproved And Open Source: Non-Planar Infill For FDMDIY Record Cutting Lathe Is Really GroovyA Pi-Based LiDAR ScannerThe Evertop: A Low-Power, Off-Grid Solar GemRobot Picks Fruit And Changes Light Bulbs With Measuring Tape Compliant Robot Gripper Won’t Scramble Your EggsDead Simple Jamming Gripper DesignThe Most Printable 3D Printer Yet
Quick Hacks:
Elliot’s Picks: Printed Perpetual Calendar Clock Contains Clever CamsHaircuts In Space: How To Keep Your Astronauts Looking FreshJolly Wrencher Down To The MicronJenny’s Picks: Low Cost Oscilloscope Gets Low Cost UpgradesOpen Source DMR RadioA Scratch-Built Commodore 64, Turing StyleRestoration Of Six-Player Arcade Game From The Early 90s
Can’t-Miss Articles:
Why Physical Media Deserved To DieTo See Within: Detecting X-Rays
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