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Ep071: Measuring Micrometers, the Goldilocks Fit, Little Linear Motors, and 8-bit Games on ESP32

Hackaday Podcast · 11 Jun 2020 · 52m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams review a week of hardware hacks, starting with Lattice Semiconductor's brief attempt to restrict reverse engineering of its FPGA bitstreams, which was quickly retracted. They then examine Mike Rankin's 'ESP32 Berninator,' a microscopic laser cutter utilizing tiny linear motors and surface-mount nuts, and Andrew Khan's CNC scroll saw with complex polar-Cartesian kinematics. The episode also covers Rossum's ESP32-based 8-bit game emulator, Mark Quist's open-source audio modem, and a deep dive into the Turing-complete capabilities of the `printf` function.

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makers and hobbyists

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Mentioned

Companies
Lattice Semiconductor, Digi Key, Pemnet, Mitsutoyo, Dinu
Products
Atari 800, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System
Chips
ESP32, iCE40, ATmega1284
Tools
ice storm, simbiflow, OpenSCAD

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