Hardware Podcasts

Ep091: Louisville Exploder, Generating Japanese Joinery, Relay Retrocomputer Rally, and Chop the Robopup

Hackaday Podcast · 30 Oct 2020 · 57m · Episode 91

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss a week of hardware hacks, including Shane's 'Louisville Exploder' which uses explosive blanks to break a baseball home run record, and Miguel Ayuso Paria's 'Chop' robot dog built with Raspberry Pi and Arduino components. They also cover George Foote's relay-based retrocomputer, Maria Larson's 'Sugite' software for generating Japanese wood joinery, and Tom Stanton's Hall effect flight simulator controls. The episode highlights the community's engagement with open-source hardware, from 3D-printed robotics to complex electromechanical builds.

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makers and hobbyists

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Companies
Boston Dynamics, SpaceX
Products
Chop, Sugite, Mercia Pro, Galaxy Computer, Brother EP43
Chips
TI, Nordic, Cypress, Amicom, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, STM32
Also
YouTubeDL, GitHub, RIAA, Pascal Langer, Sig Rock, MQTT, Shane, Destin, Miguel Ayuso Paria, Arduino, MIT, George Foote, Ben Eater, Maria Larson, University of Tokyo, Yurun Brinkman, Tom Stanton, Thanassis Psyodras, Voya Antonish, Crowd Supply, David Johnson Davies, Alexandra Kovor, Zach Halverson, Roats 4.0, Ian Davis, Tom Nardi, Christina Panos

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