PCB art is getting much better as well as much better every year. This year, though, is knocking it out of the park. In March, [Andrew Sowa] turned me into money. much more recently, [Trammell Hudson] has explored the layers of OSH Park soldermask as well as silk to produce a masterpiece. Now, we’re moving as much as full-blown art. [Blake Ramsdell] dealt with OSH Park to produce a full panel of art in gold, fiberglass, soldermask, as well as silkscreen. It’s 22×16 inches, as well as it’s fantastic.

There’s an independent Hackaday meetup going down in Hong Kong this week. The subject of the meetup will be vacuum systems for electron beam melting, mass spectrometry, as well as building Nixie tubes.

Why does my circuit still work when I eliminate some caps? This concern was posed to the EEVBlog forums, with a photo connected of  the worst mess of wires I’ve ever seen. This is — supposedly — not a joke, as well as a complete, practical CPU developed out of 74HC series logic on thirty or so solderless breadboards. A strange benefit of gain access to to the suggestion line at Hackaday implies everybody right here becomes professionals in the field of absurdly built electronics. want to see the worst PCB ever? We’ve seen it. This is, without question, the most rats nest electronic project anyone has ever built.

[Adam West] died this weekend at the age of 88. [West] is possibly finest understood for his performance in Lookwell as a crime-solving, washed-up TV action hero. He is survived by his wife, Marcelle, as well as six children.

There’s a new documentary on [Nolan Bushnell] as well as the early days of Atari. Documentarian [Bruno Grampa] will be showing his latest, Easy to Learn, difficult to Master at the computer history museum in mountain view on June 23rd. It’s narrated by [Bil Herd], so we’re a bit prejudiced, however inspect out the trailer.