Ep049: Tiny Machine Learning, Basement Battery Bonanza, and Does This Uranium Feel Hot?

Hackaday Podcast · 10 Jan 2020 · 55m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams review a week of hardware hacks, including Max Kay's ultra-low power ESP32 handheld computer and a project running support vector machine classification on an ATtiny85. They discuss Nathan's massive basement UPS built from 96 scavenged lead-acid batteries and Maurice McKay's Z-wave retrofit of a Mocha Master coffee maker. The episode also covers 3D-printed press brake tools, the history of natural nuclear reactors, and the ubiquity of barcodes.

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Companies: Fibaro, Shapeways
Products: Mocha Master
Chips: ESP32, ATtiny85, ESP32-S2, RISC-V
Tools: Beagle Bone
Also: Z-Wave

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Ep049: Tiny Machine Learning, Basement Battery Bonanza, and Does This Uranium Feel Hot?

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