Category: Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space-faring nations have flung a considerable amount of hardware out into the Void. Most of it has fallen back into Earth’s gravity well, and a lot of what remains […]
Join us on Wednesday, February 5 at noon Pacific for the Underwater Robotics Hack Chat with Tony White! Almost anywhere you look, there’s a good chance you can see a robot at work. Whether they’re sweeping your floors, delivering a snack, building a car, or even driving one, robots are everywhere on this planet. And […]
Join us on Wednesday, January 15 at noon Pacific for the Raspberry Pi Hack Chat with Eben Upton! The Hack Chat has been on an extended hiatus, but we’re back for 2025 and coming strong out of the gate! We’ve been trying to get Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton on the chat for […]
Good news this week from the Sun’s far side as the Parker Solar Probe checked in after its speedrun through our star’s corona. Parker became the fastest human-made object ever — aside from the manhole cover, of course — as it fell into the Sun’s gravity well on Christmas Eve to pass within 6.1 million […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the KiCad and FreeCAD Hack Chat led by Anool Mahidharia! The inaugural KiCon conference is kicking off this Friday in Chicago, and KiCad aficionados from all over the world are gathering to discuss anything and everything about the cross-platform, open-source electronic design automation platform. As you’d expect, […]
Join us Wednesday, April 17 at noon Pacific time for the 2019 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat! The 2019 Hackaday Prize was just announced, and this year the theme is designing for manufacturing. The hacker community has come a long, long way in the last few years in terms of the quality of projects we turn out. […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Autodesk Fusion 360 Hack Chat! Most of us have a collection of tools that we use for the various mechanical, electronic, and manufacturing tasks we face daily. But if you were asked to name one tool that stretches across all these spaces, Autodesk Fusion 360 would certainly […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Python and the Internet of Things Hack Chat! Opinions differ about what the most-used programming language in right now is, but it’s hard to deny both the popularity and versatility of Python. In the nearly 30 years since it was invented it has grown from niche […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the ESP32 Video Tricks Hack Chat! The projects that bitluni works on have made quite a few appearances on these pages over the last couple of years. Aside from what may or may not have been a street legal electric scooter, most of them have centered around […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Learning Through Play Hack Chat! You may think you’ve never heard of Greg Zumwalt, but if you’ve spent any time on Instructables or Thingiverse, chances are pretty good you’ve seen some of his work. After a long career that ranged from avionics design and programming to video game […]