Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys discuss the latest and greatest in geeky goodness. This week we saw a Soviet time capsule come to light with the discovery of a computer lab from a building abandoned in the 1990’s. A two-cycle compressed air engine shatters our expectations of what is involved in RC aircraft design. There’s a new toolkit for wireless hacking on the scene in the form of a revitalized HackRF PortaPack firmware fork. And what goes into dishwasher design? Find out in this exciting episode.
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Episode 096 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- European Right To Repair: Poor Repairability Shamed With Rating System
- NSF Releases Video Of Arecibo’s Final Moments
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Diaphragm Air Engine
- Literally Tearing Apart A SpaceX Starlink Antenna
- Building A Dishwasher From Scratch
- HackRF PortaPack Firmware Spoofs All The Things
- Leaking Data Slowly By Switching Ethernet Speeds
- Urban Explorers Reveal A Treasure Trove Of Soviet Computing Power
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