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Ep 273: A Tube Snoot, Dynamic Button Blobs, and Tokamaks Aren't Whack

Hackaday Podcast · 31 May 2024 · 42m · Episode 273

What this episode covers

Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Editor Christina Panos discuss recent Hackaday projects, including Michael Prastoffer's improved spectrometer using a Fuji camera and diffraction grating, and Scott28's rotary phone kitchen timer. They also cover Marco Reps' ultra-low-resistance rotary switch for voltage references, Mokus's Adafruit badge wedding invitations, and dynamic button blobs from Carnegie Mellon's Future Interface Group. The episode concludes with a deep dive into nuclear fusion progress at the KSTAR tokamak and a discussion on the social impact of always-on messaging apps like Facebook Messenger.

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Companies
Hackaday, Fuji, Adafruit, Jewel Watt, Carnegie Mellon, Future Interface Group, Sierra Online, Kingston University London, Microsoft, Facebook
Products
Q1, KSTAR, Discord, IRC, ICQ
Also
Maya Posch, Michael Prastoffer, Scott28, Arduino, Marco Reps, Mokus, Mr. HW, Limpkins, Andre Airday, Polymad, Mr. Teardown, Lewin

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