Ep 146: Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming

Hackaday Podcast · 26 Nov 2021 · 58m · Episode 146

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Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the Hackaday Prize winners, including Flow IO's pneumatic robotics platform and Norbert Heinz's plastic granule extruder. They review several hacks: Yasak Federinsky's dual-trackball mouse, a study on green programming languages, a solar-powered BEAM robot, and running DOOM on a Bluetooth dongle using an nRF52840 chip. The episode also covers privacy issues in Android OS, controlling lab equipment via SCPI, and a massive custom e-bike battery build.

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Products: Flow IO, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Lineage OS
Chips: nRF52840
Tools: Sigrok, GPIB, SCPI

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Ep 146: Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming

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