Hackaday - Putting Unlikely Projects Together


Pierre Freyermuth, Anders Nielsen and Andy Geppert made a pixel display you can draw on with technology from the sixties and seventies. It uses a 6502 processor, ferrite core memory made by a German company and tiny 100 Volt neon tubes made by a Soviet company called Gazotron in Ukraine that are still in business somehow.

So I was wondering about these presentations: this is by Sera Evcimen and it's about hardware startups. She makes a very funny analogy about someone opening a fish restaurant, but the closing chapter on finance was a bit depressing.


Tomaž Zaman is making a $600 crowd-funded 10Gb/s router. Actually he is trying to make a crowd-funded community platform. See https://mono.si/

They are using Linux/OpenWRT but the hardware is based on Layerscape® 1046A and 1026A Processors. It has a lot of fancy Data Path Acceleration hardware. See Artful Bytes - I Shrunk Blinky to 0 Bytes.

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And this is Rehana Al-Soltane talking about making flexible PCBs. See https://bit.ly/crown_pcb. She's also experimented with Liquid Crystal Elastomers to make threads that can respond to temperature.


People do some crazy stuff with machine knitting tendons into fabric and actuating them with motors, see this MIT class on artifical muscles:

And Alun Morris talking about using half-scale (0.05" pitch) perfboard and soldering by hand:

Finally there was a talk by Giovanni Salinas on how they produced the badges for the event using slave labor in California.


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