Hackaday Newsletter 0xAB

You've never seen this hack before! (Again.) [HACKADAY]() A Look At The Small Web, Part 1 [Read Article Now»]( Always Something New Under the Sun By [Elliot Williams]( Some of the entries we got into the Tiny Games Contest have been really mind-blowing. Just as you think you’ve seen it all, for instance, [alnwlsn comes along and mills the DIP-package ATtiny84 and embeds a complete Simon game in the space normally wasted by all that plastic overmolding](. It’s the tiniest, and most gonzo, circuit-sculpture Simon we’ve ever seen. Now, our judges are hard at work ranking all 80 of the entries, and we have a fantastic range of entries all around, so I’m not calling any winners yet. But have you ever seen a project milled into a chip before? Nope, me neither. What’s amazing is that this happens every time we run a contest. The second you put limitations on a project, there’s always someone out there who says “hold my beer” and blows the limits out of the water. Indeed, the frequency with which we see someone pull off the impossible on Hackaday makes me wish I were buying more lottery tickets. You all really are stupendous. We hope that feats like this are as inspirational to you as they are to us. No idea is too bonkers to not at least give it a try. Who knows, it might work! And when it does, please write it up and let us know. Keep the cycle of inspiration going. From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Review: iFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy]( By [Tom Nardi]( Tom tests out a very expensive, but very fancy, soldering iron. [Read more »]( [Lithium-Ion Battery Hotswapping, Polarity, Holders]( By [Arya Voronova]( Arya shares some great tricks for battery-powered projects. [Read more »]( [Where Do You Connect The Shield?]( By [Arya Voronova]( To ground or not to ground, that is the question. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast Episode 288: Cyanotypes, Antique 21-Segment Displays, and the Voynich Manuscript in a New Light]( By [Hackaday Editors]() What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mobile Coffee Table Uses Legs to Get Around]( [Why have Seven Segments When You Can Have 21?]( [Using a Potato as Photographic Recording Surface]( [How Photomultipliers Detect Single Photons]( [2024 Tiny Games Contest: Spectacular Sub-Surface Simon]( [There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge]( [Hackaday]() NEVER MISS A HACK [Share]( [Share]( [Share]( [Terms of Use]( [Privacy Policy]( [Hackaday.io]( [Hackaday.com]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update preferences]( Hackaday.com · 61 S Fair Oaks Ave Ste 200 · Pasadena, CA 91105-2270 · USA