Ep 150: Blackberry Runs Out of Juice, NODE has your pinouts, Rats learn DOOM, and 2021 is Done

Hackaday Podcast · 7 Jan 2022 · 1h 02m · Episode 150

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Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi review the year's top hardware hacks, including NODE's open-source pinouts book and a research project by Victor Toth that trains rats to play DOOM in a VR arena. They discuss practical engineering projects such as David's modular ping-pong ball LED display using laser-cut wire stripping, and Ben Lim's use of a 3-cent PicoW microcontroller to drive salvaged inkjet printer motors. The episode concludes with a retrospective on 2021 trends, highlighting the rise of the Raspberry Pi Pico, the cyberdeck movement, and the pushback against manufacturer control over owned devices.

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Companies: NODE
Products: Blackberry, The Pinouts Book
Chips: WS2812, PicoW, Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2040
Tools: Ghidra
Also: Victor Toth, DOOM, David, lasercut.scad, OpenSCAD, Ben Lim, Maya

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Ep 150: Blackberry Runs Out of Juice, NODE has your pinouts, Rats learn DOOM, and 2021 is Done

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