Hackaday Newsletter 0x81

Did Hackaday Seal Radio Shack's Fate? We didn't mean to! [HACKADAY]() Rocker Bogie Suspension: The Beloved Solution To Extra-Planetary Rovers [Read Article Now»]( Inspiration By [Elliot Williams]( While we were debating about [whether it even makes any sense to reboot RadioShack](, or indeed any brick-and-mortar electronics store in the modern era, [Dan Maloney and I]( stumbled on what probably is the real source of all of our greybeard nostalgia for the store chain: inspiration. For both of us, the appeal of a store like RadioShack was going through the place and thinking of what you’d do with all of those parts. Looking at the back of the beefiest MOSFET in the joint, you’d think about all the current you could pass with it. Or what you’d do with all of those piezo buzzers. And if you didn’t know yet what electronics project you wanted to make, there were things like the [Forrest Mims notebooks]( to inspire you. There you’d find a way to turn the humble LED into a light sensor, whether you needed to or not. I wonder how many packs of assorted LEDs that book sold?! Dan got his first hands on with a computer in RadioShack as well, because they let folks try them right there. If you didn’t know what you wanted a computer for, and that was the big question of the early microcomputer era, you could head into the store yourself and find out. Seeing, and playing with, Demon Dancer inspired. A lot of this role is taken over by hackerspaces these days, and even more is taken by the Internet itself, of course. We have no shortage of inspiration – just read a day’s worth of Hackaday if you don’t believe me. So is there any room left for RadioShack’s inspirational role? Maybe not. But if that’s the cost of living in a world where we have access to more great ideas than we’ll ever have time to execute, then so be it! From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wi-Fi 7: The Next Big Leap Or A Whole Lotta Nothing?]( By [Lewin Day]( Lewin kicks the tires on the next generation of WiFi. It's fast! [Read more »]( [Determining the Size of the New US Lithium Deposit Amidst Exploding Demand]( By [Maya Posch]( A new lithium deposit is found in the US. Will this keep us in batteries forever? [Read more »]( [This Week in Security: Blastpass, MGM Heist, and Killer Themes]( By [Jonathan Bennett]( What's up with people trying to log in as 345gs5662d34? [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast 236: The Car Episode, Building Leonardo’s Water Mill, Reviving Radio Shack]( By [Hackaday Editors]() What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Machine Learning Robot Runs Arduino Uno]( [Students Set EV Acceleration World Record]( [Bare Bones Vacuum Forming, Just Add Plastic Plates]( [Reverse-engineering the Milwaukee M18 Redlink Protocol]( [Cheap LCD Uses USB Serial]( [3D Printed RC Car is Geared For Speed]( [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