Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys marvel at the awesome hacks from the past week. We had way too much fun debating whether a wind-powered car can travel faster than the wind, and whether or not you can call that sailing. Low-temperature desoldering was demystified: it’s the bismuth! And we saw a camera gimbal solve the problem of hand tremor during soldering. Ford just wants to become your PowerWall. And the results are in from NASA’s mission to spin mice up in a centrifuge on the ISS.

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Episode 122 Show Notes:

What’s that Sound?

• We had twenty correct answers, it was the sounds of Starcraft.
• Congratulations to [Omer] who was chosen with the roll of a D20 from the correct responses and sent a Hackaday Podcast shirt.
• Check out this strange D20 from Elliot’s wife’s dice bag.

New This Week:

• Intel’s ATX12VO Standard: A Study In Increasing Computer Power Supply Efficiency

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3 thoughts on “Hackaday Podcast 122: Faster Than Wind Travel, Sisyphish, ALU Desktop Calculator, And Mice In Space”

1. HappyNapalm says:
   June 11, 2021 at 11:50 am

   On the 12 volts, I am pretty sure that most fans and cooling systems on a modern PC use the 12 volt like from the ATX power supply.

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2. stanomat says:
   June 11, 2021 at 12:16 pm

   the dice is from the Magic the Gathering trading card game
   more specific the deckmaster box grafield vs finkel 2001
   there are 5 differnt colors – this one is worth about 5 €
   and it isnt actually a dice but a spindown life counter in the shape of a w20

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3. mabe42 says:
   June 11, 2021 at 1:03 pm

   Just think of the cable diameters. Just as an example (which makes calculating easy): 600W @ 12V: 50A; 600W @ 5V: 120A. Now put cables for 120A into your PC. The cross-section would be similar to cables you find between the battery and the starter in your car. And than what about connectors dealing with such cables on a motherboard?
   To me this seems to be somewhere a tradeoff between the maximum voltage the regulators on the mainboard can safely handle and cable cross-section.

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