Hackaday Newsletter 0xC9

Hacker German 101 [Hackaday] The Hornsdale Power Reserve And What It Means For Grid Battery Storage [Read article now »]( Edelschrott and Edison By [Elliot Williams]( Human languages are famous for having words that don't quite translate perfectly into each other -- and that's why you should go out and learn as many as you can. German, in particular, is famous for words that just don't translate into English. Schadenfreude, Fahrvergnügen, and so on. I've got one that you need to import into your hacker vocabulary: Edelschrott. Literally "noble trash", Edelschrott is the fancy stuff that's in your junk pile that's just too good to throw away. Of course, the concept is universal, and as proof I'll city my favorite Edison quote: "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." But if you've got as much Edelschrott as I do, you need a single word for it, and now you've got one. Let's make "Edelschrott" as widespread in English as Kindergarten or Gesundheit! Why am I mentioning any of this? I was working on a mobile platform based on [Niklaus Fauth]'s [hack on the cheap hoverboard guts]( and I needed a controller. Something handheld that's not simply on-off. An analog joystick would work just fine, and I've got a Wii Nunchuck in the pile, but that's too obvious. Digging deep, into the edelste of the Edelschrott, I pulled out a [Space Mouse]( a six-degree-of-freedom controller from a bygone era. What will I do with the extra degrees of freedom? Or the buttons? That's where our friend Edison comes in: I'm gonna have to invent something. 36th Annual Chaos Communication Congress it's a good thing I'm heading off to 36C3 in a week. Hackaday has [an assembly]( and if you don't already belong to an assembly, join us! Or if you do, come by and say hi. Maybe you can help me figure out what the heck to do with the Space Mouse... If you're not going to be at 36C3, we'll be covering the best hacks, most interesting talks, and the scene in general. Keep your eyes on Hackaday. From The Blog [Linux Fu: Stupid SSH Tricks]( By [Al Williams]( If you connect to remote computers over the Internet, it is a pretty good chance you use some form of SSH or secure shell. But are you using it to the full? [Read more »]( [Prusa Dares You to Break Their Latest Printer]( By [Tom Nardi]( Prusa 3D printers came out of the open RepRap scene, and the latest motherboard includes an "appendix" that you have to clip to upload your own firmware. [Read more »]( [Wonder Woman and the Real Lasso of Truth]( By [Al Williams]( What do Wonder Woman and the polygraph have in common? Would you believe they were invented by the same person? [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast EP047]( 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 [See How Wildly Different Air Conditioners Can Be (On The Inside)]( [Why Is Your Cellphone Not A More Useful Computer?]( [Tidy Board Rework Uses Flex PCBs, No Wires]( [A Modular System For Building Heavy Duty 18650 Battery Packs]( [These Lessons Were Learned in Enclosure Design, But Go Far Beyond]( [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