Hardware Podcasts

Ep043: Ploopy, Castlevania Cube-Scroller, Projection Map Your Face, and Smoosh Those 3D Prints

Hackaday Podcast · 8 Nov 2019 · 53m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the upcoming Hackaday Supercon badge, which features an FPGA and custom audio synthesis, and review several community hacks including the open-source Ploopy trackball, a Castlevania-playing LED cube, and a laser-induced vulnerability in MEMS microphones. They also cover a 3D printing technique for stronger parts by 'smooshing' extrusion, a Bluetooth-enabled pocket welder, and a facial projection mask costume. The episode concludes with a deep dive into the history of UNIX and Linux, and the engineering challenges of stopping deep-sea oil spills.

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makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Products
Ploopy, Castlevania, BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi, Alexa, Google Home, NES Classic, Boomy Zoomy
Chips
ESP32, MEMS
Tools
GTK wave
Also
UNIX, Linux, GNU, BSD, DD-WRT, Tomato firmware, OpenWRT, Minix, PDP-11

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