Hackaday Newsletter 0xD4

Coronavirus Cancels Conferences [Hackaday] Raising the Titanic’s Radio Room [Read article now »]( Social Distancing. Bummer. By [Elliot Williams]( As you read this, the Open Hardware Summit is taking place, but differently than in previous years. This year, it's [taking place in cyberspace]( To what do we owe this futuristic development? Unfortunately, COVID-19, the corona virus. And OHS isn't alone. [Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest was cancelled outright](. In Germany, where I live, the national health board has recommended cancelling all events with more than 1,000 attendees, and both the Maker Faire Berlin and the Chaos Computer Club's [20th annual Easterhegg]( have been called off. And just announced today, our own Hackaday Belgrade event is going to be postponed and rescheduled for later this year. It's truly sad, but we're still looking forward to seeing you all a little bit later in the summer. If you can't make the new date, tickets will of course be refunded. We'll keep you informed when we get a new venue and time. The best way to slow the spread of a global pandemic, [according to the WHO who should know best]( is washing your hands and avoiding contact with other people. "Social distancing" is the new catch-phrase, and that means keeping a few meters away from other folks whenever reasonable. And clearly, gathering people from all over the world, packing them into a single auditorium, and spending quality time together doesn't meet this requirement. So we're all probably going to be laying low globally for a little while. On the positive side, this means more time for hacking here in the lab, and I'm excited to be able to watch the online version of the Open Hardware Summit. If you're working from home, it's that much easier to keep up to date with Hackaday. Still, I can't wait to be on the other side of this thing, and it makes me appreciate the various social gatherings that much more. And of course I have [Isaac Newton]( in my thoughts, who developed the groundwork for his Calculus and laws of gravitation while at home because Cambridge was closed to stop the spread of the Great Plague. Wash your hands! From The Blog [Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains]( By [Elliot Williams]( The open-source FPGA toolchains got significantly more capable in 2019. They are closing in on support for Xilinx's Artix 7. Next, the world! [Read more »]( [US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships]( By [Tom Nardi]( Read all about the super-sophisticated fighting vessels that are being retired without ever having fired a shot in anger. [Read more »]( [Dexter Robot Arm Embraces New Manufacturing with First Micro-Factory]( By [Mike Szczys]( Haddington Dynamics, the company behind the open-source Dexter robot arm has opened its first microfactory. What's a microfactory, you might ask. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast EP058]( By [Hackaday Editors]( Hackaday Editor Elliot Williams and guest-host Jonathan Bennett talk about all the articles on Hackaday that you shouldn't miss. [Read more »]( If You Missed It [John Deere And Nebraska’s Right To Repair, The Aftermath Of A Failed Piece Of Legislation]( [Getting 1000 FPS Out Of The Raspberry Pi Camera]( [Dumpster Finds Combined into 4K Desktop Monitor]( [A Super-Brain for an E-bike]( [3D Printed Tooling Punches Above Its Weight With Added Hardware]( [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 subscription preferences]( Hackaday.com · 61 S Fair Oaks Ave Ste 200 · Pasadena, CA 91105-2270 · USA