Hardware Podcasts

Ep006: Reversing iPod Screens, Hot Isotopes, We <3 Parts, and Biometric Toiletseats

Hackaday Podcast · 15 Feb 2019 · 47m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams review a week of hardware hacks, including Mike Harrison's reverse-engineering of iPod display signals, a DIY light-up parts sorter using OpenCV, and a biometric toilet seat for cardiovascular monitoring. They also discuss a 3D-printed Venturi pump for etching gas, a DIY nanodrop spectrometer, and a massive 90,000-pixel LED wall at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry driven by FPGAs. The episode concludes with a look at the deep space energy crisis involving Plutonium-238 and Josh Vasquez's article on the joys of mechanical fabrication.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Oakridge National Laboratory
Products
iPod
Chips
APA102, Spartan 6, ESP32
Tools
OpenCV
Materials
Plutonium-238, Delrin

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