Hackaday Newsletter 0xF3

You got it, someone needs it. How do we get it there? [HACKADAY]( Getting Rid of All the Space Junk in Earth’s Backyard [Read Article Now»]( Spare Parts Express By [Elliot Williams]( I've [got spare parts, and I cannot lie](. This week I'm sending out two care packages to friends and coworkers because I've got too many hackables on hand, and not enough time to hack them all. One is a funky keyboard, and the other is an FPGA dev board, but that's not the point. The point is that the world is too interesting, and many of us have more projects piled up in the to-do box, with associated gear, than we'll ever have time to complete. [Too many chips!] Back in the before-times, we would meet up, talk about our ongoing hacks, and invariably someone would say "oh you need an X, I've got half a box of them" and send you one. Or maybe you'd be the one with the extra widgets on hand. Either way, it's a win for the giver, who gets to take a widget off the widget pile, for the receiver, who doesn't have to go to the widget store, and for the environment, which has to produce fewer widgets. (My apologies to the widget manufacturers and middlemen.) This reminded me of Lenore Edman and Windell Oskay's [Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk]( back in the late aughts. Trolling through the [wiki]( was like a trip down memory lane. [This box]( visited my old hackerspace, and then ended up with Bunnie Huang. Good times, good people, good hacker junk! And then there's our own Brian Benchoff's [Travelling Hacker Box]( and [spinoffs](. These are great and fun projects, but they all end up foundering in one respect: to make sense, the value of goods taken and received has to exceed the cost of the postage, and if you're only interested in a few things in any given box, that's a lot of dead weight adding to the shipping cost. So I was trying to brainstorm a better solution. Some kind of centralized pinboard, where the "have too many h-bridge drivers" folks can hook up with the "need an h-bridge" people? Or is this ad-hoc social network that we already have working out well enough? What do you think? How can we get the goods to those who want to work on them? From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Firmware Hints that Tesla’s Driver Camera is Watching]( By [Tom Nardi]( Tesla firmware suggests that the in-car camera is using image recognition on you. Is this a bad thing? [Read more »]( [Axe Hacks: Spinning Knobs And Flipping Switches]( By [Sven Gregori]( In part two of Sven's series, he takes you deeper into the guts of your guitar. [Read more »]( [Ask Hackaday: With Landline Use in Decline, What’s to be Done with the Local Loop?]( By [Dan Maloney]( With fiber-optic in ascendance, what will become of all that buried copper? Dan wants to know. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast 089: 770 Potato Battery, Printing Resin Resist, and No-Internet Video Chat]( 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Cable Modem to SDR Transformation]( [Running Way More LED Strips On A Raspberry Pi With DMA]( [An Open Source IR Gateway Based on the ESP8266]( [Tube Amp is Modeled with the Power of AI]( [Throwing Down the FPGA Gauntlet]( [Long Range WiFi Broadcasts Open-Source Video Conferencing]( [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