Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys work their way through a fantastic week of hacks. From a rideable tank tread to spoofing radio time servers and from tune-playing vacuum cleaners to an epic camera motion control system, there’s a lot to get caught up on. Plus, Elliot describes frequency counting while Mike’s head spins, and we geek out on satellite optics, transistor-based Pong, and Jonathan Bennett’s weekly security articles.
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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Episode 036 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- Elliot’s working on the audio compression algorithms originally used by the Speak & Spell
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Building Video Pong With Discrete Components
- Keeping Clocks On Time, The Swiss Way
- Scratch Built Media Player Channels 1980s Design
- DJ Xiaomi Spins Beats And Brushes At The Same Time
- Speed Up Filming With This Jawdropping 8-Axis Camera Crane
- Frequency Counting A Different Way
Quick Hacks:
- Mike’s Picks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
Have you guys thought about dedicating part of your podcast episodes to a deep dive (or deep-ish dive) into particular topics? Like LoRA, or the Teensy boards, or temperature sensors, or Lidar, or whatever — what it is, what it’s for, what it costs, some recent Hackaday articles on projects that used it, how to get started, etc.
Something to gather together content that shares a theme but may be spread over time (vs. current approach that is the reverse)
Interesting.
We kinda think of the podcast as our opportunity to showcase the articles that came out in the week that you really shouldn’t miss, y’know, just in case you don’t spend every waking hour logged in to Hackaday…
But a “best of [topic here]” type show could be cool too. We’ve thought of doing something similar, like our all-time favorite hacks or something. This would be another cool variation. I like.
I don’t know about others, but your podcast is a timesaver for me. I don’t daily check hackaday anymore, I just listen to your podcast.
So thank you for doing it.
Oh dear… I’m always looking to convert more and more people to typing hackaday.com into an address bar first thing each morning. You’ve got to at least scroll through the headlines each day, right? ;-)
Glad you’re enjoying the show. We’re having a ton of fun doing it and happy for the feedback. Thanks!
Glad you like the idea. I think it would make for a valuable learning experience to get people up to speed on particular technologies.
I listen to all the podcasts (and browse through the Hackaday RSS feed and read articles that interest me) but often feel like I am missing the forest for the trees on many topics.