Hackaday Podcast · 8 May 2020 · 51m
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams review a week of hardware hacks, highlighting Jeremy Bell's tape-loop scratcher, Dan Maloney's solenoid typewriter simulator, and Nakazoto's 10-bit relay adder. They also discuss the Raspberry Pi Foundation's new high-resolution camera module, Mark Rehorst's smartphone time-lapse hack, and Mirko Pavlewski's DIY smartphone-based metal detector. The episode concludes with commentary on the decline of manual transmissions and the mechanics of mRNA vaccines.
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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.
The host reviews several maker projects and products, including a hack of e-ink price tags from Maker's Fun Duck and a low-cost flex sensor alternative using an LDR created by a student at Gord Payne's High School. He announces the November Electromaker of the Month winners, highlighting Liminus Reductor's modular robot dog, a plant-identifying wrist device by 'donuts or else', and a hexabit-based distance meter. The episode also covers new hardware releases such as the Inkplate 2 e-paper kit, a Raspberry Pi prototyping breakout kit on Kickstarter, Elephant Robotics' Arduino-based Ultra Arm P340, and the Raspberry Pi Camera Module v3.
The host of The Electromaker Show reviews several maker projects, including Matthias Wandel’s RP2040-based microwave current sensor and Alisdair Allan’s hack of an IKEA Vindriktning air quality monitor using a Raspberry Pi Pico W. The episode also highlights Arduino Nano projects like cardboard laser tag guns and a persistence-of-vision CD display, before covering new hardware such as the GGTag e-ink RFID device, the Raspberry Breadstick, and the Orange Pi Zero 3.
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.
Ian from Electromaker presents episode 77, highlighting the new Electromaker Educator series hosted by Robin Mitchell, which covers microcontroller platforms like STM32, AVR, and RP2040. The episode features Aaron Christophel’s project to flash Texas Instruments chips using an ESP32, and discusses the March Electromaker of the Month winners, including a DIY RP2040 Space Mouse and a retro arcade clock. It also covers Mitxela’s 1-inch HDMI second screen hack, the Roendi rotary encoder display on Crowd Supply, and the NXP Cup autonomous vehicle competition.
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