HACKADAY LINKS: may 28, 2017

Boeing as well as DARPA are building a spaceplane. right now it’s only a press release as well as a few idea images, however it appears like this is an air-launched system type of like a Tristar/Pegasus, only much higher as well as totally unmanned. It’s a load as well as a half to low earth orbit, with a goal of 10 flights in 10 days.

Up in Albany? There’s a new hacker con happening in a few weeks. Anycon is a hacking, infosec, as well as cyber security seminar happening June 16 & 17th in Albany, NY. The organizers of this con ([Chris], as well as his business Leet Cybersecurity) are loosely modeling this con after Derbycon. [Dave Kennedy] of TrustedSec will be going to as the keynote speaker.

GODA NYHETER! [Casey Neistat] is under investigation by the FAA. [Casey Neistat] is the YouTuber that flies drones right in the middle of the Hudson River corridor, as well as is a menace to general aviation around NYC.

This is neat. The Supplyframe style lab is the Hackaday Mothership right in the middle of Pasadena where we hold our designers in residence, hold a few meetups, as well as slowly fill every cubic inch of area with either dust or tools. The style lab just won a style award. You can inspect out the ‘design’ part of the style lab here, however keep in mind it will never be that clean ever again.

Here’s an fascinating Twitter to follow. Alitronik is a curator of the weird as well as wonderful inexpensive crap that can be discovered on AliExpress. requirement an Altera Cyclone dev board? right here you go. A desk-mountable OLED inspection microscope? Gjort. A seven dollar Tesla coil? Dude, you can totally in shape this inside a hat.

[Drygol] had a nice old Commodore C16 with a damaged TED chip. A shame, really. He did what anyone would do: put a C64 motherboard in the situation for a elegant stealth upgrade.

Is the fantastic crowdfunded 3D printer boom over? Some would state that ship sailed after lots of 3D printer crowdfunding jobs failed to deliver, or provided extremely low-quality machines. These people were wrong. This Polaroid-branded 3D printing pen may not get funding. A year ago, this job would have been funded on day one. There would have been writeups in The Verge on exactly how Polaroid is turning the corner after decades of wasted opportunities. Now, the Crowdfunded 3D printer boom is lastly over.

The Hackaday team was at the Bay area maker Faire last weekend as well as holy crap did we have a blast. everybody came to the meetup on Saturday except for the terminate marshall. The trick OSHPark bringahack on Sunday was even more impressive. We likewise saw a Donkey Car capable of driving around a track autonomously, however the team behind it didn’t have their work up on the Web at the time.