Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams recount the past week in hardware hacking. There’s a new Tamagochi hack that runs the original ROM on plain old microcontrollers like the STM32. Did you know you can blast the Bayer filter off a camera sensor using a powerful laser and the sensor will still work? We didn’t. There was a lot of debate this week about a commercial jet design alteration that would remove windows — but it’s for the good cause of making the plane more efficient. We marvel at what it takes to pump blood with an artificial heart, and go down the troubleshooting rabbit hole after the magic smoke was let out of a radio.
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What’s that Sound?
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Tamagotchis Everywhere
- From Tube And Wing To Just Wing: The Future Of Airliners
- Fail Of The Week: Flipped Cable Leads To Fried Radio
- Using A Laser To Blast Away A Bayer Array
- Raspberry Pi Pico Used As A Transputer
- ESP8266 Network Meters Show Off Unique Software
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I found it interesting that as I was reading this morning, I found out one of the people responsible for the early 70’s TV program, The Banana Split Gang was the inventor of the artificial heart !