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Ep 322: Fake Hackaday Writers, New Retro Computers, and a Web Rant

Hackaday Podcast · 23 May 2025 · 55m · Episode 322

What this episode covers

Hosts Elliot Williams and Jenny List discuss the announcement of Hackaday Supercon 2025 and the passing of Apollo 13 engineer Ed Smylie. They review several hardware hacks, including a new ITX motherboard reimplementing the Mac Plus, a secure LoRa messenger called Communicateur, and an open-source high-speed Ethernet switch by Andrew Zonenberg. The episode also covers Doom running on an Atari ST, the Mouse programming language on Arduino, and a web rant by Maya Posch about the death of graceful degradation.

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makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Products
Mac Plus, Communicateur, Atari ST, Doom, Nextcloud, EOS, Tuxedo
Also
Hackaday Supercon, Ed Smylie, Bertrand Selva, LoRa, Andrew Zonenberg, Mouse, Peter Grogano, Maya Posch, ChatGPT, Jenny List, Elliot Williams, Al Williams, Tech Altar

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