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Ep 176: Freezing Warm Water, Hacking Lenses, Hearing Data, and Watching YouTube on a PET

Hackaday Podcast · 8 Jul 2022 · 1h 03m · Episode 176

What this episode covers

Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney review the week's top hacks, including a project that brings YouTube video playback to a Commodore PET via a Raspberry Pi and dual-port SRAM, and a library called GG Wave that encodes data in audio for microcontrollers like the ESP32. They also discuss the Mpemba effect, a hack adapting a Sigma lens for Canon cameras, and a method for extracting lightning frames from video using OpenCV. The episode concludes with a deep dive into a hidden message encoded in the podcast's audio using the Kansas City standard, analyzing how podcast compression affects the signal.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Cruise, Sigma, Canon
Products
Capstone, Commodore PET
Chips
ESP32, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Tools
OpenCV, GG Wave, FFmpeg
Also
Kansas City Standard

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