Hardware Podcasts

Ep 237: Dancing Raisins, Coding on Apples, and a Salad Spinner Mouse

Hackaday Podcast · 23 Sept 2023 · 43m · Episode 237

What this episode covers

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos discuss a variety of hardware hacks, including a scientific analysis of dancing raisins, the properties of Nitinol for airless tires, and a project preserving court records from floppy disks using Grease Weasel. They also cover the mechanics of rocker bogie suspensions used in planetary rovers and the history of Apple's attempts to make coding accessible to non-programmers.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Arduino, DigiKey, Apple, Bloop Museum
Products
HyperCard, AppleScript, Swift Playgrounds, Shortcuts, Nixie tubes, Soppy Robot, JPL Open Source Rover
Chips
PDP-11
Tools
Grease Weasel
Materials
Nitinol
Also
Plover, Dalibor Varney, Roger Chang

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