Hackaday Newsletter 0x96

Travelling light is still heavy. [HACKADAY]() Dial-Up Is Still, Just Barely, a Thing [Read Article Now»]( Hacking and Working on the Go By [Elliot Williams]( I'm off visiting my parents for a while, and have managed to bring nearly everything along with me that I need to get work done, and it all fit in a small backpack! This includes a portable audio interface to run my podcast mic, two (count them) two Linux computers, and all manner of simple hacking tools. Microcontrollers with USB/serial adapters built in are a godsend. But putting together the minimal setup was no easy task! Alone the USB cable assortment I had to bring was astounding. And in the end, it looks like I forgot a USB-B mini, and good luck finding that at the local drug store. (I know! But the Zoom recorder wants mini. Don't ask me why.) And then there's the power adapters -- brick for the laptop, USB-C fast charger for the Steam Deck, another wall-plug USB for recharging the power banks. And of course, this silly custom keyboard which I'm so used to typing on, and which embodies so much muscle memory in its macros that I'm practically helpless without it. So fundamentally, I'm astounded by the amount of functionality I could cram into my pack, but I'm also aghast at all the little things that add up around the edges. And I'm sure that I'll find stuff that I'm missing in the next few weeks. Do you need to travel for work with your full kit? What's your approach? Minimal? Maximal? Head on over to Hackaday on Saturday morning and leave us your hacker travel kit tips in the comments. From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Avi Loeb and the Interstellar Lottery]( By [Dan Maloney]( Extraterrestrial life is almost a certainty. Finding it is another problem entirely. Does it make sense to look? [Read more »]( [Stacking Solar Cells Is A Neat Trick To Maximise Efficiency]( By [Lewin Day]( If you can only get 33% efficiency from one solar cell, what do you do? [Read more »]( [Ethernet For Hackers: Transformers, MACs And PHYs]( By [Arya Voronova]( In this installment, Arya gets into magnetics. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast Episode 260: KiCad 8, Two Weather Stations, and Multiple I2Cs]( By [Hackaday Editors]() What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Older Nissan Leafs Lose Their App, Are They The First Of Many?]( [Large Language Model Can Help You Develop For The Amiga]( [Motherboard Revived With Simplest 1.8V SPI Shifter Ever]( [An ESP32 MultiFactor TOTP Generator]( [Yuzu and Citra Emulators Shut Down After Legal Pressure From Nintendo]( [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