Ep 164: Vintage NASA Soldering, Mouse Bites, ATTiny85 Graphics, and PVC Pontoons

Hackaday Podcast · 15 Apr 2022 · 1h 03m · Episode 164

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Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi review a week of hardware hacks, including a vintage NASA soldering film, a fixed-code Tesla charging exploit, and Nick Poole’s scientific analysis of PCB mouse bites. They also discuss Wesgood’s autonomous PVC pontoon boat, Jörg’s high-performance graphics library for the ATtiny85, and a teardown of a commercial coin acceptor. The episode concludes with reviews of the Vizzy AI camera and the mothballing of the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover.

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Companies: Tesla, SparkFun, NASA
Products: Raspberry Pi, Vizzy, Rosalind Franklin, Arduino, Game Boy, Nokia E-Series
Chips: ATtiny85, SSD1306, MLX90393
Tools: HackRF, RTL-SDR

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Ep 164: Vintage NASA Soldering, Mouse Bites, ATTiny85 Graphics, and PVC Pontoons

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