Hardware Podcasts

Ep023: Everything Breaks... Raspberry Pi, ADS-B, Hackaday Website, and Automotive Airbags

Hackaday Podcast · 14 Jun 2019 · 55m

What this episode covers

Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the closure of Maker Media, a GPS hardware failure grounding flights, and a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ power management chip vulnerability. They also review community hacks including a vintage speech synthesizer, an SOIC test clip debug connector, and a mechanical drum machine, before analyzing the Takata airbag scandal.

Most relevant to

large enterprises and makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Maker Media, Rockwell Collins, Hackaday, WordPress VIP, Takata
Products
Maker Faire, Raspberry Pi 3 B+, Arduboy, NES, ZX Spectrum
Chips
STM32L476, ESP32

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