Hardware Podcasts

Ep 145: Remoticon is On, Movie FX, Cold Plasma, and The Purest Silicon

Hackaday Podcast · 19 Nov 2021 · 50m · Episode 145

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Tom Nardi and Elliot Williams discuss the upcoming Remoticon event, highlighting new features like Discord integration and a Gather Town 'bring a hack' space. They review several projects, including open GL machine learning for low-end hardware, Jay Bowles' cold plasma sterilization experiments, and the practical effects engineering behind Terminator 2's liquid metal bullets. The episode also covers a study by Lease Plan showing electric cars are now cheaper to own than gas vehicles, Russia's anti-satellite weapon test, and the complex process of refining pure silicon.

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Hackaday, European Space Agency, Lease Plan, Tesla
Also
Remoticon, Discord, Gather Town, Open GL, Raspberry Pi, Karatsuba's algorithm, Jay Bowles, Hunter Scott, Stan Winston, Terminator 2, ESP32, M5 Paper, Russia, International Space Station, Dan Maloney

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