Thunderstorms were raging across southern Germany as Elliot Williams was joined by Jenny List for this week’s podcast. The deluge outside didn’t stop the hacks coming though, and we’ve got a healthy smorgasbord for you to snack from. There’s the cutest ever data cassette recorder taking a tiny Olympus dictation machine and re-engineering it with a beautiful case for the Commodore 64, a vastly overcomplex machine for perfectly cracking an egg, the best lightning talk timer Hackaday has ever seen, and a demoscene challenge that eschews a CPU. Then in Quick Hacks we’ve got a QWERTY slider phone, and a self-rowing canoe that comes straight out of Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice sequence.

For a long time we’ve had a Field guide series covering tech in infrastructure and other public plain sight, and this week’s one dealt with pivot irrigation. A new subject for Jenny who grew up on a farm in a wet country. Then both editors are for once in agreement, over using self-tapping screws to assemble 3D-printed structures. Sit back and enjoy the show!

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Episode 336 Show Notes:

What’s that Sound?

• Congrats to [1tR3x] who knew more about the music of 2001 Space Odyssey than I did!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Tiny Datasette Uses USB For The Modern Day
  
  • How Commodore tapes work
  • Classic Computer Magazine Archive article

  
  

• Does It Make Sense To Upgrade A Prusa MK4S To A Core One?
• Lightning Talks On Time, With This Device
• Over-Engineering An Egg Cracking Machine
  
  • What Can You Learn From An Eggbot?

  
  

• This Plotter Knows No Boundaries
• An Amiga Demo With No CPU Involved

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  
  • Phonenstien Flips Broken Samsung Into QWERTY Slider
  • Remembering The Intel Compute Stick
  • Old Projects? Memorialize Them Into Functional Art
  • Microsoft Removed WMR Headset Support? No Problem!

  
  

• Jenny’s Picks:
  
  • Microsoft BASIC For 6502 Is Now Open Source
  • CAD, From Scratch: MakerCAD
  • Robotic Canoe Puts Robot Arms To Work

  
  

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• No Need For Inserts If You’re Prepared To Use Self-Tappers
• Field Guide To North American Crop Irrigation

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