Hardware Podcasts

Hackaday 2018 Year in Review

Hackaday Podcast · 18 Dec 2018 · 1h 06m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams review 2018 trends, highlighting the rise of private space exploration with SpaceX's reusable rocket nose cone recovery and the 'year of the FPGA' driven by open-source toolchains like IceStorm and soft cores like RISC-V. They discuss the explosion of 'badge life' in the maker community, where hackers produce custom conference badges and 'shitty add-on' headers, and note the shift in home automation toward Wi-Fi and MQTT. The episode concludes with their favorite hacks, including a garage-built IC by Sam's Aloof, a self-solving Rubik's cube, and analog mechanical keyboards.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
SpaceX
Products
Arduino
Chips
RISC-V
Tools
IceStorm
Also
Meltdown, Spectre, DEFCON, Sam's Aloof

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