Ep 231: Hacking NVMe into Raspberry Pi, Lighting LEDs with Microwaves, and How to Keep Your Fingers

Hackaday Podcast · 20 Dec 2024 · 1h 01m · Episode 231

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Hosts Elliot Williams and Dan Maloney review a week of hardware hacks, highlighting Jeff Keecher’s energy-harvesting Christmas card that powers LEDs from microwave leakage and Wi-Fi, and LessRight’s automated rig for growing large potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals. They discuss enabling NVMe storage on the Raspberry Pi 500 by soldering an M.2 slot, Peter Bosch’s homebrew electron beam lithography using a scanning electron microscope, and Carl Bujega’s durable PCB motors. The episode concludes with a discussion on table saw safety technologies like SawStop and the privacy implications of AI image analysis services like 'They See Your Photos.'

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Products: Raspberry Pi 500, They See Your Photos, SawStop
Also: Jeff Keecher, LessRight, Peter Bosch, Carl Bujega, Google Vision API

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Ep 231: Hacking NVMe into Raspberry Pi, Lighting LEDs with Microwaves, and How to Keep Your Fingers

What this episode covers

Most relevant to

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