Hardware Podcasts

Ep 154: A Good Enough CNC, Stepper Motors Unrolled, Smart Two-Wire LEDs, a Volcano Heard Around the World

Hackaday Podcast · 4 Feb 2022 · 55m · Episode 154

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Dan Maloney discuss a variety of hardware hacks, including Kevin Linaw’s PCB-based stepper motors that levitate magnets, Robin Kearney’s Lego analog tide computer, and Andrea Favero’s minimalist Rubik's cube solver robot. They also cover Tim/CPLD CPU’s reverse engineering of a 2-wire addressable LED strip protocol, Yvonne Miranda’s small CNC machine for cutting aluminum, and the global citizen science data collected from the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Hackaday, Yas Sonara Industries, Makita
Products
James Webb Space Telescope, Wanhao Duplicator, Raspberry Shake
Chips
ATtiny10, WS2812
Tools
KiCad, OpenCV, ChipWhisperer
Also
Kevin Linaw, Robin Kearney, Pepin DeVos, Lord Kelvin, Andrea Favero, Tim/CPLD CPU, Yvonne Miranda, Hunga Tonga, Colin O'Flynn

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