Hardware Podcasts

Ep 105: 486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We're Headed to Mars

Hackaday Podcast · 12 Feb 2021 · 51m · Episode 105

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss several hardware hacks, including Sylvain Minot’s port of Doom to an iCE40 FPGA using a RISC-V core, and Alex’s recreation of a Texas Instruments TIL311 display using resin casting. They also cover Luke Esselbrugge’s integration of a Raspberry Pi and Android Auto into a Volvo, and Thomas Sen Louderer’s filament thickness sensor using a Hall effect mechanism. The episode concludes with a preview of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing and a review of the new ESP32-C3 microcontroller.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Hackaday, Texas Instruments, Volterra, NASA
Products
TIL311, Raspberry Pi, Android Auto, Snapmaker 2.0, Perseverance
Chips
STM8, iCE40, ESP32, ESP32-C3
Also
RISC-V

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