It’s Friday the 13th, and despite having to dodge black cats and poorly located ladders, Elliot and Dan were able to get together and run down the best hacks of the first week of September. Our luck was pretty good, too, seeing how we stumbled upon a coffee table that walks your drink over to you on Strandbeest legs, a potato that takes passable photographs, and a cool LED display three times better than a boring old seven-segment.
If you’ve never heard of the Voynich manuscript, you’re in luck too, because we got a chance to look inside this medieval comic book literally, with multispectral analysis. Is your cruise ship too short? No worries, just lop it in two and add a section. Speaking of cutting things up, that’s what you need to do to see how your plus-size DIY rocket engine performed after test firing.
And finally, it was a sweep for Jenny this week with our “Can’t Miss” articles, where she both pines for a simpler, smaller web experience and wonders what the future holds for biomass fuels.
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Episode 288 Show Notes:
News:
- Supercon 2024: Show Off Your Unique Display Tech
- Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration
- Orion Ceases Operations, Future Of Meade Unclear
What’s that Sound?
- Congratulations to [TechnoLibrarian] for recognizing the sound of a videotape loading.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Mobile Coffee Table Uses Legs To Get Around
- Hot Water Heater Hacked To Run On Solar Juice
- Using A Potato As Photographic Recording Surface
- Shedding New Light On The Voynich Manuscript With Multispectral Imaging
- Why Have Seven Segments When You Can Have 21?
- A Look Inside A DIY Rocket Motor
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks
- Dan’s Picks:
Can’t-Miss Articles:
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