Hackaday Podcast Episode 289: Tiny Games, Two Modern Modems, and the Next Big Thing

This week on the Podcast, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos joined forces to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week. …

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This week on the Podcast, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos joined forces to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week. First up in the news: we’ve announced the 2024 Tiny Games Contest winners! We asked you to show us your best tiny game, whether that means tiny hardware, tiny code, or a tiny BOM, and you did so in spades. Congratulations to all the winners and Honorable Mentions, and thanks to DigiKey, Supplyframe, and all who entered! We also announced the first round of Supercon speakers, so if you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, now’s the second best time. But wait, there’s more! We’re already a few weeks into the next contest, where we want you to show us your best Simple Supercon Add-On. We love to see the add-ons people make for the badge every year, so this time around we’re really embracing the standard. The best SAOs will get a production run and they’ll be in the swag bag at Hackaday Europe 2025. Then it’s on to What’s That Sound, which completely stumped Kristina once again. Can you get it? Can you figure it out? Can you guess what’s making that sound? If you can, and your number comes up, you get a special Hackaday Podcast t-shirt. Now it’s on to the hacks, beginning with non-planar ironing for smooth prints, and a really neat business card that also plays tiny games. Then we’ll discuss USB modems, cool casts for broken wrists, and archiving data on paper. Finally, we ask two big questions — where do you connect the shield, and what’s the Next Big Thing gonna be? Inquiring minds want to know. Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments! Download in DRM-free MP3 and savor at your leisure. What’s that sound link not working? Should be good now. Thank you, Tom! You guys mentioned using a clothes iron on the surfaces of your 3D print objects. They used to make these small irons mounted on a handle, kind of like a beefy soldering iron. The surface of the iron is about the size of a business card. Unless you’re making really huge things on your 3D printer, this would much easier to use than a full size clothes iron. These were known to me from my teenage days of making and flying model airplanes. It was used to shrink the Mylar-like skin you used to cover the balsa wood frame (as opposed to the laborious process of stretching silkspan paper across the frame, spraying it with water to shrink, and painting it with layer upon layer of dope). Looks like this. I wonder if you could make a special soldering iron “tip” that is an iron, kind of like you get special tips for setting threaded inserts into your 3D prints. https://www.diypackraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Coverite-Black-Baron-Sealing-Iron.png Oh, that is cool! Many hot air guns come with similar nozzle attachments. Haha Kristina, “pour over the manual”. Hilarious coffee pun thrown in there!😂 Wait, storing information on paper with 2d shapes…you mean writing? Please be kind and respectful to help make the comments section excellent. (Comment Policy) This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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