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Ep 190: Fun with Resin Printing, Tiny Tanks, Lo-Fi Orchestra, and Deep Thoughts with Al Williams

Hackaday Podcast · 21 Oct 2022 · 45m · Episode 190

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos review the Cyberdeck and Hackaday Prize winners, highlighting projects like the S-SEA-X cyberdeck and an underwater sea urchin vacuum. They discuss resin printing waste recovery using a UV-curing toilet paper tube system and a 1970s analog tank simulator that uses a miniature physical landscape. The episode also covers restoring a 1956 vacuum tube radio, electroplating 3D prints, and custom interfaces for digital calipers, before analyzing Al Williams' articles on long-term data storage and humanoid robot design.

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S-SEA-X
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Festums Museum, Jan Marazik, Adam Wilson, Hendrick, Liba 2K, Kevin, Al Williams

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