Hackaday Podcast · 2 Aug 2024 · 1h 10m · Episode 282
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss the fragility of modern infrastructure following the CrowdStrike outage, then highlight Saildrones' autonomous robotic sailboats for hurricane research and Michael Meyer's 3D-printed 'Pi 84' laptop. They analyze the complex electronics inside Super Nintendo cartridges, including the Super FX chip, and review the history of the Alpha Smart word processor. The episode concludes with practical hacks like reading smart meters via SDR, laser cleaning paintings, and multi-design PCB panelization.
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Hosts Elecia White and Chris Svec discuss listener emails, covering topics from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch to the Chordbot sequencer controller from Isla Instruments. White shares her experience writing 'Making Embedded Systems' and addresses a reader's request for resources on interrupts and timers, while also reviewing educational YouTube content and the free STM32 TrueStudio IDE. The conversation concludes with reflections on corporate product cancellations at LeapFrog and Cisco, and the technical optimization of early Pokémon games.
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