This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos decided against using one of Kristina’s tin can microphones to record the podcast, though that might be a cool optional thing to do once (and then probably never again).
After a brief foray into the news that the Chaos Communications Congress will be decentralized once again this year, as COVID restrictions make planning this huge event a complete headache (among other notable symptoms), we discuss the news that the EU is demanding replaceable batteries in phones going forward.
After that, it’s time for another What’s That Sound results show, and despite repeated listens, Kristina fails to guess the thing. Even if she’d had an inkling as to what it was, she probably would have said ‘split-flap display’ instead of the proper answer, which is ‘flip-dot display’, as a few people responded. Finally, it’s on to the hacks, where we talk about uses for ferrofluid and decide that it’s one of those things that’s just for fun and should not be applied to the world as some sort of all-purpose whacking device.
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
And/or download it and listen offline.
Episode 199 Show Notes:
News:
What’s that Sound?
- The sound was a flip-dot display, and the winner is [Derek, K]!
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- GB Interceptor Enables Live Screen Capture From Game Boy
- Morphing Keyboard Gets You Dialed In Just Right
- Encoding NTSC With Your Hands Tied
- You Can Make Ferrofluid On The Cheap With VHS Tapes
- 2022 FPV Contest: A Poor Man’s Journey Into FPV
- Beat Backing Box For Bassists
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Kristina’s Picks:
The promised gif of the Jolly Ranger is missing from the notes!
The gif is above. You might have to look closely to see that it’s on TV.
My changes to the code: https://github.com/hexagon5un/NTSC-CRT/tree/random_random. Might only work on Linux, or systems with a /dev/random.
It was all of five minutes work to just patch in an actually random seed.
Right you are, I had missed the subtle effect.
One of my favorite Hackaday podcast episodes.
See you in the New Year.
Happy 200th!