Hardware Podcasts

Ep076: Grinding Compression Screws, Scratching PCBs, and Melting Foam

Hackaday Podcast · 17 Jul 2020 · 55m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss several fabrication hacks, including Robin De Bruy's method of scratching PCB traces with a CNC scriber to achieve finer isolation than milling, and Joshua Pearce’s open-source design for grinding compression screws for plastic extruders. They also cover Freddy’s interactive CNC foam cutter art installation, Donald Pap’s library for matching bottle cap threads in OpenSCAD, and Michael Engel’s bare-metal Smalltalk operating system on a Raspberry Pi. The episode concludes with a deep dive into hard drive recovery using DDRescue and troubleshooting the Arduino IDE's serial buffer configuration.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Products
Roland JV-1080, Kenwood TH-D74A, Pulsar, TS100
Chips
ATtiny85, LS7183, Raspberry Pi
Tools
OpenSCAD, DDRescue, Arduino IDE
Also
Robin De Bruy, Joshua Pearce, Jacob France, Donald Pap, Michael Engel, Freddy, Mitzella, Home Assistant, Project Oberon, Smalltalk

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