Hackaday Newsletter 0x90

When Less is More [HACKADAY]() NASA Adjusts Course on Journey to the Moon [Read Article Now»]( It’s the Simple Things By [Elliot Williams]( I love minimal hacks. Limitations are sometimes the spark for our greatest creativity, and seeing someone do something truly marvelous with the simplest of technological ingredients never fails to put a smile on my face. This week, it was the super-simple [1D Fireworks]( project by [Daniel Westhof]. Nothing more than an ESP8266 and a long RGB LED strip went into this effect on the hardware side, and indeed the code isn’t all that tricky either. But what it does is a very nice simulation of the physics that define the movement of a flare rocket and then all of the stars that explode out of it. And that makes it look so good. Hackaday’s [Kristina Panos] is apparently also a fan of the single dimension, because she picked out some of my personal favorite uses of an LED strip, including [Twang](, to which we’ll admit we’re addicted, or any of the [pong versions](. But I’ve seen other games, including a button-mashing racer and various roller-coaster simulations. All with the same, essentially, two-part BOM. (OK, if you don’t count the buttons/accelerometer, or power supply.) Or [this demo of sorting routines](, or the [Velocicoaster](. And I think there’s more out there. How much creativity can you pack into an LED strip? This sounds like we need to make a new contest… From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Linux Fu: Name That Tune]( By [Al Williams]( A simple API call can let you figure out what music is playing around you. [Read more »]( [Vulcan Nails First Flight, but Peregrine Falls Short]( By [Tom Nardi]( The first launch of a new rocket is aces. Its payload, not so much. [Read more »]( [Liquid Tin Could Be The Key To Cheap, Plentiful Grid Storage]( By [Lewin Day]( Hot metal and a novel "solar panel" store energy on the cheap. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast Episode 252: X1Plus Hacks Bambu, Scotto Builds a Katana Keyboard, and Bass Puts out Fire]( By [Hackaday Editors]() What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [X1Plus: Open Source Bambu Lab X1 Firmware]( [USB-C Power Supply Pushes Almost 2 kW]( [Faking Bluetooth LE With An nRF24L01+ Module]( [The Simple Tech Behind Hidden Camera Detectors]( [37C3: The Tech Behind Life with Quadraplegia]( [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