Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you’ll have to settle for just the few that can fit in a podcast. The guys were excited about 3D printing — both FDM and SLA — as well as a few camera projects. Ever wanted your own starship? They do, too, and you’ll hear about it along with portable radar and more.

Want to make flexible PCBs? Fill up a carbon dioxide tank? Or play Doom via regular expressions? Tune in, and you’ll find out about those stories and more.

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Episode 380 Show Notes:

News:

• Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access

Mailbag:

• [Marcel] wants more info about the next Hackaday Europe, and delivers a great excuse for not making it this year.
• A note about IRCs and QSL managers from [Reese Johnson].
• QSL Bureau
  
  • Drop your comments and questions in audio or text format to mailbag@hackaday.com, and you might hear it on a future podcast!

  
  

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing
  
  • New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing
  • sentientstardust / ImageMap-Calibration-Tool · GitLab
  • FullSpectrum Is Like HueForge For 3D Models, But Bring Your Toolchanger

  
  

• Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet
  
  • GitHub – orbitersim/orbiter: Open-source repository of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator · GitHub

  
  

• Taking Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos
  
  • Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky – Wikipedia
  • Cromemco Cyclops – Wikipedia
  • Do You Dream In Color?

  
  

• Building A Portable Weather Radar
  
  • Pluto Might Not Be A Planet, But It Is An SDR Transceiver
  • GitHub – plutoplus/plutoplus: The repo maintain PlutoSDR+ · GitHub

  
  

• The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next
• Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  
  • ICCU Monitor Logs Data In E-GMP EV Failures
  • Filling High Pressure CO2 Tanks From Sugar Fermentation Gas
  • Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?
  • Team Repair Breaks Things To Teach People How To Fix Them

  
  

• Al’s Picks:
  
  • DOOM Using Regular Expressions
  • Improving The Microcontroller Gaming Performance With PicoGame
  • Regain Some Trust In Unknown USB Drives

  
  

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks
• Giving Resin 3D Printers Another Shot After Six Years

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