Medical equipment often makes for interesting teardown videos: the strict requirements imposed by certification bodies mean you’ll find good quality components and a high standard of design and manufacturing. But …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/medical-ultrasound-scanner-gives-up-its-secrets-runs-doom/)

Hackaday Links: December 18, 2022
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/hackaday-links-december-18-2022/

By now everyone has probably seen the devastation wrought by the structural failure of what was once the world’s largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium. The scale of the tank, which until …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/hackaday-links-december-18-2022/)

Image-Generating AI Can Texture An Entire 3D Scene In Blender
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/image-generating-ai-can-texture-an-entire-3d-scene-in-blender/

[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. As …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/image-generating-ai-can-texture-an-entire-3d-scene-in-blender/)

Solar Cell Fabric Makes Anything Solar
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/solar-cell-fabric-makes-anything-solar/

MIT has been working on very thin solar cells made of a film just a few microns thick. The problem? The cells are so thin that they’re hard to work …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/solar-cell-fabric-makes-anything-solar/)

Z8000 Trump Card Needs Your Help
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/z8000-trump-card-needs-your-help/

[Smbakeryt] needs your help. He bought a 1984-vintage Z8000 coprocessor card for the PC, but the software is missing in action. Apparently, the co-processor — called a Trump Card — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/z8000-trump-card-needs-your-help/)

Mini Cheetah Clone Teardown, By None Other Than Original Designer
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/mini-cheetah-clone-teardown-by-none-other-than-original-designer/

[Ben Katz] designed the original MIT Mini Cheetah robot, which easily captured attention and imagination with its decidedly un-robotic movements and backflips. Not long after [Ben]’s masters thesis went online, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/mini-cheetah-clone-teardown-by-none-other-than-original-designer/)

Damaged Soyuz May Leave Crew Without a Ride Home
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/damaged-soyuz-may-leave-crew-without-a-ride-home/

Though oddly beautiful in its own way, it’s a sight no astronaut wants to see: their spacecraft, the only way they have to return to Earth, ejecting countless iridescent droplets …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/damaged-soyuz-may-leave-crew-without-a-ride-home/)

35mm Film Restoration Process Explained
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/35mm-film-restoration-process-explained/