Collaborate Disseminate
“Don’t worry, that’ll buff right out.” Alarming news this week as the James Webb Space Telescope team announced that a meteoroid had hit the space observatory’s massive primary mirror. While …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 12, 2022
[IMSAI Guy] presents for your viewing pleasure, a nice video on the topic of optical filters and mirrors. (Video, embedded below) The first optical device is a simple absorption filter, …read more Continue reading All About Dichroic Optical Filters
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has become something of a celebrity here on Earth, and rightfully so. After decades of development, the $10 billion deep space observatory promises to …read more Continue reading Put a Little Piece of the James Webb on your Wall
We end up covering a lot of space topics here on Hackaday, not because we’re huge space nerds — spoiler alert: we are — but because when you’ve got an …read more Continue reading Working Model Reveals Amazing Engineering of Webb’s Mirror Actuators
London company Stufish laid out a spectacularly trippy experience for visitors to this year’s One Giant Leap technology conference in Saudi Arabia, in which visitors could walk through a colossal kaleidoscope tunnel, surrounded by wild LED visuals.Cont… Continue reading World’s biggest walk-through kaleidoscope delivers psychedelic visuals
As anyone who has used a 3D printer before knows, what comes off the bed of your regular FSD printer is by no means a mirror finish. There are layers …read more Continue reading 3D Prints With A Mirror Finish
If you need a lens for a project, chances are pretty good that you pick up a catalog or look up an optics vendor online and just order something. Practical, …read more Continue reading The Ins and Outs of Casting Lenses from Epoxy
Generally speaking, creating custom mirrors is a complex task that involves a lot of careful grinding, and isn’t something to be taken lightly if you need precision results. Just ask …read more Continue reading Making Custom Curved Mirrors at Home
Long before the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive came along, some of the biggest names in gaming tried to develop practical stereoscopic displays. These early attempts at virtual reality (VR) …read more Continue reading Teardown: RADICA i-Racer
If there’s one thing that continues to impress us about the Hackaday community as the years roll by, it’s the willingness to share what we’ve learned with each other. Not …read more Continue reading Air-Assist Analysis Reveals Most Effective — and Quietest — Methods