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Ep 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives

Hackaday Podcast · 17 Jul 2026 · 58m · Episode 378

What this episode covers

Hosts Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos discuss the upcoming Supercon conference in Pasadena and the Frikkin' Lasers Contest. They cover several hacks, including Abdul Sahil's OpenStrap project which reverse-engineers the Whoop fitness tracker's Bluetooth protocol to enable local data processing, and Paul Rickards' portable Raspberry Pi cyberdeck. The episode also features a deep dive into Michael Weebush's analog directional coupler for bidirectional communication over a single wire, and Maya's analysis of the challenges in archiving software as physical media disappears.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Library of Congress, Sony
Products
Whoop, OpenStrap, AIM, Discord, Valve Vive Tracker
Chips
Raspberry Pi
Tools
Borland Turbo C
Also
Oscar Protocol

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