Hardware Podcasts

Ep 151: The Hackiest VR Glove, Plotting Boba Fett with Shoelaces, ECU Hacking, and Where Does Ammonia Come From?

Hackaday Podcast · 14 Jan 2022 · 1h 01m · Episode 151

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss a week of hardware hacks, highlighting Lucas Lucid’s low-cost VR glove using servos and strings, Jean Thomas’s Arduino core for x86 bare-metal programming, and Willem Melching’s ECU hacking of a 2010 VW Golf for autonomous driving. They also cover Jim G’s servo plotter using shoelaces, a 3D-printed wind sensor, and long-form articles on the Haber-Bosch ammonia process and automotive NVH engineering.

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makers and hobbyists

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Companies
Canon, comma AI
Products
VW Golf
Also
Lucas Lucid, GeoHot, Haber-Bosch, Monash process

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