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Ben Wang
Personal blog · benwang.devhardwarescience
Ben Wang's personal blog at benwang.dev covers hardware and science. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Phased Array Microphone (2023)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links this post, on phased microphone arrays, in a summary of forgotten tech, alongside a NASA paper on using such arrays for rocket liftoff acoustics. Only a bare link is given.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ben Wang’s site with some projects and random thoughts
Most-linked posts?
- Phased Array Microphone (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-05
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for all the responses, suggestions, and lengthy discussion. Below is a summary of everything I have seen on here (per 9/12/2023) Phased Microphone Arrays (actually used to work in this field, not discussed much, yet NASA uses these for Liftoff acoustics) - https://benwang.dev/2023/02/26/Phased-Array-Microphone.html (DIY if you'd like your own) - https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120007205 (NASA Paper) Memr…
Comment linking /2023/02/26/Phased-Array-Microphone.html
on “Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished”Submitted Phased Array Microphone (2023) as a story · 600 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY Phased Array Microphone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PCB Linear Actuator as a story · 2 points
HN discussion