Hackaday Newsletter 0x1E

We got a short taste of hackerspace normality. We missed it! [HACKADAY]( Ask Hackaday: What is Amazon Thinking by Entering the Palm-Reading Business? [Read Article Now»]( Getting Back into Hackerspaces By [Elliot Williams]( Last week, I got my first chance to get out and about among the hackers in what feels like forever. Hackerspaces here in Germany are finally able to re-open for business-as-almost-usual, allowing access to reasonable numbers of people providing they're immunized or tested, and wearing masks of course. And that meant that I got to take up [Andreas'] invitation to come see his [Stereo Ninja inspection microscope project]( in person. Stereo Ninja basically makes clever use of two Raspberry Pi cameras, swaps out the optics for greater enlargement, and displays the results on a 3D monitor -- to be viewed with shutter glasses. This is one of those projects that you really have to see in person to "get it". He's still working on stripping the build down to make it simpler and more affordable, to make the project more accessible to the average hacker. We talked about DIYing a 3D monitor. It turns out that the shutter glasses are cheap, and it looks like they're synced by an IR pulse to the monitor. There should be a hacker solution for 3D to work with a fast gaming monitor at least. [Andreas] also pointed me to this [great breakout board for the Raspberry Pi CM4]( that breaks out both camera lanes for easy stereo / 3D capture. I got the tour of the [FabLab]( and we talked welding, metal 3D printing, software, hardware and assorted nerdy stuff. [[Alex]( showed up on his way out of town for the weekend -- it'd been ages since we hung out. In short, I remembered how it used to be in the before-times, when visits with other hackers, and to other hackerspaces, were possible. There's this spontaneous and mutually inspirational kind of chat that's just impossible remotely, and is tremendously important. We're not done with the COVID pandemic yet, I fear, and different parts of the world have entirely different trajectories. If you told me two years ago that I would be visiting hackerspaces with a mask and proof-of-vaccination, I would have thought you were crazy. But at the same time this brief visit gave me a little boost of hope for the future. We will get through all of this, and we'll all meet up again at our local hackerspaces. Oh Yeah... A regular reader wrote in to ask what the heck is up with my invitations for comments; He gets this newsletter in his inbox, has something to say, and then what? We re-publish the weekly newsletter at [7:00 AM Pacific time on Saturday morning over at Hackaday.com]( -- that's where the discussion takes place. Come join us! Newsletter subscribers also get our picks of our top-tenish stories of the week, though, so don't hit that unsubscribe button so fast. From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [So How Does a Rocket Fly Sideways, Anyway?]( By [Tom Nardi]( Private rocket firm Astra had a most amazing launch last week. It's a miracle it went as well as it did! [Read more »]( [Pining for a De-Googled Smartphone]( By [Bryan Cockfield]( Bryan takes a critical look at his open-source phone. It's not perfect, but it's pretty cool. [Read more »]( [The Postmortem Password Problem]( By [Eric Evenchick]( You can't take it with you -- your password, we mean. How will you hand down the keys to your kingdom? [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast 134: Hackers Camping, Metal Detecting, 360° Hearing, and Pocket Computing]( By [Hackaday Editors]( What happened last week on Hackaday? Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Big ‘F’ Key to Pay Big Respects]( [Measuring LED Flicker, With Phototransistor and Audio App]( [Hacker Claims Honda and Acura Vehicles Vulnerable to Simple Replay Attack]( [Raspberry Pi and ESP32-S2 Team Up For mutantC_V4]( [Bake It To ReMake It: Cooking Old Magnetic Tape to Recover Data]( [Clearing the Air about Proprietary Consumables with a Xiaomi Filter DRM Resetter]( [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