Hardware Podcasts

Ep 292: Stainless Steel Benchies, Lego Turing Machines, and a Digital Camera Made of Pure DIY

Hackaday Podcast · 11 Oct 2024 · 1h 04m · Episode 292

What this episode covers

Hosts Elliot Williams and Dan Maloney discuss several long-term hardware projects, including Wenting's seven-year effort to build a fully DIY mirrorless digital camera using a CCD sensor and FPGA, and Metal Matters' two-year struggle to 3D print stainless steel benchies using laser melting. They also cover Steven Hawes' work on solderless PCB prototyping with conductive inks, 3D printed roller bearings made from filament, and a complex Lego Technics Turing machine. The episode concludes with a deep dive into Lagrange points for space orbit mechanics and research into recycling polyethylene and polypropylene using solid-phase catalysts.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Internet Archive, NASA
Products
Wayback Machine, James Webb Space Telescope, Themis, Lego Technics
Tools
Lumen Pick and Place
Materials
Z-Tape, Bear Conductive Ink
Also
Wenting, Metal Matters, Stephen Hawes, UC Berkeley, Michael Gardi, 3D Print Bunny, Cliff, David Buchanan, Sipa, Lewin Day, Maya Posh

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