Ep 276: A Mac on a Pico, Ropes on the Test Stand, A Battleship up on Blocks

Hackaday Podcast · 21 Jun 2024 · 1h 09m · Episode 276

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Hosts Elliot Williams and Dan Maloney review a week of hacks, focusing on Aaron Christophel’s hackable $20 smart ring, Matt Evans’s RP2040-based Mac 128 emulator, and the engineering behind abrasion-resistant climbing ropes. They also discuss Postmarket OS enabling Linux on old cell phones, the challenges of programming robots for non-experts, and the discovery of Earth's quasi-moons. The episode concludes with a look at the maintenance of the Battleship New Jersey and a 1979 homebrew digital sampler by Mitsuru Yamada.

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Companies: Astroscale, JAXA
Products: Pi Pico, Altair 8800
Chips: Blue X, RP2040
Also: Voyager 1, Hackaday.io, Aaron Christophel, Mitsuru Yamada, Postmarket OS, Lindroid, Hard is Easy, Mammoth Test Labs, Matt Evans, UMAC, Benji Holsen, IEEE Spectrum, Homebrew Reader, David Hansel, Battleship New Jersey, Tom Nardi

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Ep 276: A Mac on a Pico, Ropes on the Test Stand, A Battleship up on Blocks

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