Hackaday Newsletter 0x9D

Have you ever seen Raiders of the Lost Ark? [HACKADAY]() The Computers of Voyager [Read Article Now»]( Institutional Memory, On Paper By [Elliot Williams]( Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a long-term project, he has been trying to figure out the computer systems on board. He got far enough to [write up a great overview piece](, and it’s a pretty good summary of what we know these days. But along the way, he stumbled on a couple old documents that would answer a lot of questions. Dan asked JPL if they had them, and the answer was “no”. Oddly enough, the very people who are involved in [the epic save]( a couple weeks ago would also like a copy. So when Dan tracked the document down to a paper-only collection at Wichita State University, he thought he had won, but the whole box is stashed away as the library undergoes construction. That box, and a couple of its neighbors, appear to have a treasure trove of documentation about the Voyagers, and it may even be one-of-a-kind. So in the comments, a number of people have volunteered to help the effort, but I think we’re all just going to have to wait until the library is open for business again. In this age of everything-online, everything-scanned-in, it’s amazing to believe that documents about the world’s furthest-flown space probe wouldn’t be available, but so it is! It makes you wonder how many other similar documents – products of serious work by the people responsible for designing the systems and machines that shaped our world – are out there in the dark somewhere. History can’t capture everything, and it’s down to our collective good judgement in the end. So if you find yourself in a position to shed light on, or scan, such old papers, please do! And then contact some nerd institution like the [Internet Archive]( or the [Computer History Museum](. From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [The 2024 Business Card Challenge Starts Now]( By [Elliot Williams]( Like a good challenge? Turn your project into your calling card! [Read more »]( [Your Open-Source Client Options In the non-Mastodon Fediverse]( By [Lewin Day]( The Fediverse is open. If all you know is Mastodon, you're missing out. [Read more »]( [Ask Hackaday: Do You Calibrate Your Instruments?]( By [Jenny List]( Jenny asks Hackaday when was the last time we calibrated our gear, and why. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast Episode 270: A Cluster of Microcontrollers, a rocket engine from scratch, and a look inside Voyager]( By [Hackaday Editors]() What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [This Robot Picks Locks, If You’re Very Patient]( [Building a Rocket Engine from Scratch]( [Bluepad32 Brings All the Controllers To Your MCU]( [Fully 3D Printed Case Is Stacked High With Mini PCs]( [An Audio Delay, The Garden Hose Way]( [This Typewriter Types Toast]( [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