Hackaday Newsletter 0xC8

Never Too Early/Late for New Year's Resolutions [Hackaday] Patch, Or Your Solid State Drives Roll Over And Die [Read article now »]( Almost 2020... By [Elliot Williams]( Did you make any hacking-related New Year's resolutions? I mention this now, because the year is slowly drawing to a close and it's essentially the last minute. If you need to get a PCB fabbed and populated, you can still get it done under the Jan 1 deadline, but you'd better hustle. Me? Oh dear. On my list was to dive deep into FPGAs, and I got that one done in spades. But that was partly because [I got lucky](. Other hacking projects included learning about Bluetooth LE (completely undone!) and playing around more with home automation, which did happen a bit, but not as much as I had hoped. If you procrastinated on accomplishing your resolutions, you can make up for it by planning ahead for next year. I think 2020 needs to be the year of finishing up all the unfinished, loose-end projects for me. A bold resolution full of myriad sub-resolutions, but we'll see what gets done. What are you planning? New Contest: Clocks Who loves crazy clock builds? Hackaday loves crazy clock builds. And to show off, we've got a [new contest running](. Whether you're counting down to the eventual heat death of the universe or simply until the end of your shift like Fred Flintstone, we want to see your clocks. The contest runs until January 24th, but don't sleep on this because time has a way of slipping, slipping into the future. Three Great Supercon Talks We've been pushing out the Superconference talks, and if you didn't catch them all in person, now's your chance to catch up! David Williams gave a [great talk on using small FPGAs]( that also serves as a crash-course introduction to our favorite bits of programmable hardware. Chris Gammell gave a talk on his [recent dive into RF engineering]( and claims that it's not all black magic. finally, on the Design Lab stage, Angela Sheehan walked us through the [development of her color-changing fairy costume]( complete with wireless color-sampling wand. (In an act of unparalleled bravery, she handed her wand out to the audience, and it worked throughout the entire presentation!) Her eye for detail and perseverance in the face of hacking challenges make this talk, which was just released this week, a must see. You'll walk away more inspired, we promise. From The Blog [Chandrayaan-2 Found by Citizen Scientist; Reminds Us of Pluto Discovery]( By [Al Williams]( Pluto was discovered nearly 100 years ago using a method that helped an amateur scientist track down the lost Indian lander on the moon and tweet to NASA. [Read more »]( [The Story Of The Quickening: Mercurial Metal]( By [Maya Posch]( Of all known metals, mercury is probably one of the most famous, if only for its lustrous, liquid form at room temperature. It's useful, and deadly. [Read more »]( [Linux Fu: Debugging Bash Scripts]( By [Al Williams]( You might think that you don’t need a debugger for all those tiny shell scripts. But when you do, you're going to want to read this. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast EP046]( By [Hackaday Editors]( Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams talk about all the articles on Hackaday that you missed, plus space elevators. [Read more »]( If You Missed It [Not-Quite-So-Hot Stuff: A Thermal Exam On The Latest Raspberry Pi]( [Swapping the ROMs in Mini Arcade Cabinets]( [Simple Pogo Programmer for ESP8266 Modules]( [Using Glow-in-the-Dark Fish Gut Bacteria to Make Art]( [DIY Music Controllers for Raging With Machines]( [Laptop Like It’s 1979 with a 16-Core Z80 on an FPGA]( [Hackaday]( NEVER MISS A HACK [Share]( [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 subscription preferences]( SupplyFrame, Inc · 61 South Fair Oaks Avenue · Suite 200 · Pasadena, CA 91105 · USA