With Editor in Chief Mike Szczys off this week, Managing Editor Elliot Williams is joined by Staff Writer Dan Maloney to look over the hacks from the last week. If you’ve ever wondered how the Beatles sound on a floppy disk, wonder no more. Do you fear the coming robopocalypse? This noisy wall-climbing robot will put those fears to rest. We’ll take a look at an undersea lab worthy of the Cousteau name, and finally we’ll look inside a digital pregnancy test and wonder at its unusual power switch.
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 084 Show Notes:
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
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- Incredible Soldering In The Name Of Hardware Support
- The Floppy Disk As A Portable Music Format
- Comparing Shortwave Antennas With RTL-SDR And Python
- Ultra-Mobile Little Robot Will Climb The Walls
- A Faithful Replica Of An Early Computer Trainer
- Digital Pregnancy Tests Use LEDs To Read Between The Lines
Quick Hacks:
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