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episode 175: MEP EP#175: Are Projects Really Useless?
Are Projects Really Useless?
MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine Sponsored by Mouser Electronics
- Four cash prizes!
- First Place: $1000
- Second Place: $500
- Third Place: $250
- MacroFab Podcast Favorite: $1000 and a Useless Trophy
- Contest runs 8 AM CST June 1st, 2019 through 8 AM CST August 10, 2019
- How to Enter your Useless Project
- Build an electronic project that is useless
- Document it as a new project on Hackaday.io Tag it with “MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine”
- More rules and information on the blog
R.F.O.
- Arm gives up control of IP to China
- Softbank, sold the 51% share of Arm China to the Chinese
- Major Google Services Outage
- Nest was down. No A/C and Doors couldn’t be unlocked
- Services rendered YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat
- Google Cloud on the backend
- Squirrels and Security — It’s a Thing!
- They’re cute, they’re fuzzy, and they pose a major threat to our cyber-infrastructure.
- “Frankly, the No. 1 threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels”
- This map lists all unclassified Cyber Squirrel Operations that have been released to the public that we have been able to confirm.
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