Hackaday Podcast · 20 Sept 2019 · 47m
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys review a week of hardware hacks, including Elliot's experiment with the Talkie LPC16 voice synthesis library on an Arduino to mimic Speak & Spell sounds, and a discrete transistor-based Pong machine built by Glenn. They also discuss Andreas Spies' project to spoof DCF 77 radio time signals using a Raspberry Pi, and a scratch-built 1980s-style Pi HiFi media player by Gootsy Guy. The episode covers DJ Xiaomi, a hacked Xiaomi vacuum running a Spotify client via the Dust Cloud library, and a massive 8-axis camera motion control rig built by Mingle. Finally, they analyze security topics including the Simjacker exploit and discuss satellite surveillance capabilities.
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The host of The Electromaker Show reviews the February Electromaker of the Month winners, including a LoRa walkie-talkie by Kutlahan Akta, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Raspberry Pi. He discusses a faithful Sol-20 retro computer recreation using a Raspberry Pi, reviews the Blues Wireless Notecard for cellular IoT, and highlights a Cornell University project for silent voice command recognition via lip reading.
Host Ian discusses Christopher Barnett's 'Raspberry Pi 500' build, which repurposes an Atari 500 case for a Raspberry Pi 5, and announces Cooper Rox2 as the winner of the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev 2 competition. The episode covers Dexterity Robotics' automation of truck loading, the WiSer wireless serial project on Crowd Supply, and Elegoo's massive OrangeStorm Giga 3D printer. Finally, Ian reviews a car CAN bus hacking project using Blues Wireless Note Carrier F and an Adafruit M4 CAN board.
The host covers OpenCut, an open-source quadruped framework by Petoy using the Arduino-based Nyboard, and two Low Level Learning tutorials on using embedded Rust with the Raspberry Pi Pico and Arduino Uno. He highlights a modular synthesizer project by Joshua Coleman controlled by an Apple II via a DAC, and Iran Fiet’s Atari 2600 tennis interface. The episode concludes with news on the Mico RP2040 USB PDM microphone, the new Raspberry Pi network-bootable bootloader, and updates to the Arduino CLI and CadQuery CAD tool.
The host of The Electromaker Show reviews several maker projects, including Kevin's Pi Day synthesizer, Graham Sanderson's DOOM port on the RP2040, and Daniel Bell's DIY Spacemouse. The episode also covers crowdfunding updates for the Halo TD-XPAH Wi-Fi 6 board and the SoCORAD32 amateur radio, alongside a deep dive into Ben Vallack's custom ergonomic keyboard and Neil's Pockit modular computer with its new CM4 upgrade.
The host reviews several maker projects including Pegor’s Pi-powered Jägermeister pouring machine, Naveen’s Thingy53 snoring detector, and Zach Freedman’s Mirage Mark3 modular keyboard. He also covers crowdfunding campaigns like the Edge Pro 1 and Juicy Crumb’s iMac drop-in, before analyzing Amazon’s new Fire TV Cube and Halo Sleep Tracker from a hardware repurposing perspective.
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