Hardware Podcasts

Ep095: Booting FreeDOS from a Vinyl Record, Floating on Mushrooms, and Tunneling Through a Living Room

Hackaday Podcast · 27 Nov 2020 · 14m

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss recent hardware hacking news, including the reverse engineering of the Nintendo Game & Watch by Conrad Beckman and the release of Espressif's RISC-V based ESP32-C3. They also cover the decommissioning of the Arecibo Observatory and showcase winners from the circuit sculpture contest, such as Eric Brandl's Walden instrument. The episode concludes with a lightning round of quick hacks, featuring a mushroom mycelium canoe by Kate Ayers and booting FreeDOS from a vinyl record.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Espressif
Products
Nintendo Game & Watch, Walden, FreeDOS, IBM PC 5150
Chips
STM32, ESP32-C3, RISC-V
Also
Conrad Beckman, Arecibo Observatory, Eric Brandl, Kate Ayers, Adrian Studer, Jack Foreman, Joseph

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