Ep081: Mask-apult, Beef Tallow, Grinding Melted Plastic, and Stretching Flowing Metal

Hackaday Podcast · 20 Aug 2020 · 54m

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Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Tom Nardi review a week of hardware hacks, including Alan Pan's CO2-powered 'Mask-apult' and a subtractive 3D printing technique that mills plastic layers as they print. They discuss an autonomous lawnmower using RTK GPS for centimeter-level accuracy, a reverse-engineered Linux driver for a PC water cooling system, and a hand-built micro-RC car. The episode concludes with deep dives into 1840s atmospheric railways and the complex engineering of aluminum extrusion.

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Products: Mask-apult
Chips: Pick 32 DMA
Tools: RTK GPS, Wireshark, OpenSCAD

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Ep081: Mask-apult, Beef Tallow, Grinding Melted Plastic, and Stretching Flowing Metal

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