It’s time to talk about something of ultimate significance to all Hackaday readers. The very first trailer for the new star trip series is out. Some preliminary thoughts: the production values are with the roof, as well as a few of this was filmed in Jordan (thank the king for that). The writers have thrown in some apparent references to traditional trip in this trailer (taking a spacesuit into a enormous alien thing a la TMP). There are a few new species, even though this is set about 10 years before waaaait a second, those are the Klingons?
In other news, [Seth MacFarlane] is doing a thing that appears like a Galaxy Quest series. We can only hope it’s half as great as a Galaxy Quest series might be.
The Dayton Hamvention ought to have been this week, however it’s never going to occur again. The Hara Arena, the conventional location for the most significant amateur radio satisfy on the continent (thankfully) closed this year. Last year it was looking old as well as tired. This year, Hamvention transferred to Xenia, Ohio, as well as it appears like we’re still getting the very best ham switch satisfy on the planet. Remember: if you drove out to Hamvention, the Air force museum is well worth the visit. This year they have the fourth hangar open, full of area craft goodness.
Last week we saw an open source firmware for hoverboards, electric unicycles, as well as other explodey bits of self-balancing transportation. [Casainho], the brains behind this outfit, just recently got an eBike controller from China. As you would expect, it’s based on the exact same hardware as these hoverboards as well as unicycles. That implies there’s now open source firmware for eBikes.
Last year, [Cisco] developed a adorable bit walking robot. now it’s up on Kickstarter.
This week saw the statement of the Monoprice small Delta, the much-anticipated 3D printer that will offer for less than $200. For one reason or another, I was cruising eBay this week as well as came upon this. They state yesterday’s trash is tomorrow’s collectors’ item, you know…
A new Tek range will be revealed in the coming weeks. What are the great bits? It has a huge touchscreen. That’s about all we know.
The ESP32 is the next excellent wonderchip, as well as has been for a while now. The ESP32 likewise has a CAN peripheral stuffed in there somewhere, as well as that implies WiFi as well as Bluetooth-enabled cars. [Thomas] has been working on getting a chauffeur up as well as running. There’s a thread on the ESP32 forum, a Hackaday.io page, as well as a GitHub page.
What do you do when you have a good old Vacuum Fluorescent Display as well as want to show some stats from your computer? You develop a thing that appears like it’s taken from a money register. This is a job from [Micah Scott], as well as it has everything: electronics 3D modeling, magnets, print smoothing, producing snap-fit parts, as well as lovely old displays.
Here’s something that randomly showed up in our suggestion Line. [Mark] just recently discovered some unused HP 5082-7000 section screens in a collection of electronic elements (pics below). According to some appropriate literature, these were the very first LED screen bundle available, ever. They were released in 1969, they’re BCD, as well as were certainly extremely expensive. [Mark] is wondering exactly how numerous of these were really produced, as well as we’re all thinking about the actual value of these things. If anybody understands if these are just prototypes, or if they went into production (and what they were utilized for), leave a note in the comments.