Hardware Podcasts

Ep034: 15 Years of Hackaday, ESP Hacked, Hydrogen Sipping Cars, Giant Drawbot, Really Remote RC Cars

Hackaday Podcast · 6 Sept 2019 · 50m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams celebrate the publication's 15th anniversary, noting over 34,000 articles and nearly 1 million comments. They discuss security vulnerabilities in the ESP8266 and ESP32 Wi-Fi stacks discovered by Mateus Eduardo Garbellini, which Espressif has patched in the official SDK. The hosts also review several community projects, including a custom USB cable build by Joseph Adamchick, a giant SCARA drawbot by Alex Weber, and remote-controlled RC cars modified with ESP8266 modules by surrogate.tv.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Espressif, surrogate.tv, Stratasys, MakerBot
Chips
ESP8266, ESP32, Raspberry Pi
Tools
OpenCV
Also
Mateus Eduardo Garbellini, Joseph Adamchick, Tom Nardi, Alex Weber, Tinkerlog, Anton Gutcher, Lewin Day, Thingiverse

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