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Ep 194: FPV Contest, Seven Words, Lots of Coffee, and Edible Drones

Hackaday Podcast · 25 Nov 2022 · 49m · Episode 194

What this episode covers

Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos discuss the new FPV contest, the Kraken SDR open-source passive radar project, and various community hacks including an ESP32 laser show and a rice cake drone. They review Eric Sorenson’s Arduino-controlled coffee roaster, Ben Eater’s reverse engineering of a TV Guardian, and a Gajuino espresso machine mod. The episode concludes with a discussion on the 'Great Electric Toaster Hoax' on Wikipedia and the UK's removal of fax machine universal service provisions.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Hackaday, Gaja
Products
Kraken SDR, Gajuino
Chips
ESP32
Tools
Arduino
Also
Ben Eater

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