This week Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off with a traffic report from the Moon, which has suddenly become a popular destination for wayward robots.
From there, they’ll go over a fire-tending contraption that’s equal parts madness and brilliance, two decades of routers being liberated by OpenWRT, impressive feats of chip decapping, and USB-C’s glorious rise to power.
You’ll also hear about the latest developments in laptop RAM, exploits against the flash encryption used on the ESP32, and Android powered oscilloscopes. The duo will wrap things up with horror stories from the self-checkout aisle, and a look at the fantastical rolling power station that Dan Maloney has been building in his driveway.
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!
Episode 253 Show Notes:
News:
- Crippled Peregrine Lander To Make Fiery Return Home
- SLIM Moon Landing Live & Press Conference – YouTube
What’s that Sound?
- This week’s sound was the mimicry of the Lyrebird. Congratulations to [Pixie]!
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Feeding The Fire By Robot
- OpenWRT To Mark 20 Years With Reference Hardware
- Reverse Engineering Smart Meters, Now With More Fuming Nitric Acid
- Breaking The Flash Encryption Feature Of Espressif’s Microcontrollers
- Laptop Memory Upgradable Again
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Tom’s Picks:
Joked about it in the podcast…
https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/DSCF3565.jpg
I think I have one of those in my hobby room/office right now! :-)
if you don’t clip 2:07 through 2:10 and torture tom with it forever i will be very upset.
“long story short, the moon landing never happened”
😂
The commercial that Tom mentioned, with the sketchy-looking guy in the supermarket, was for IBM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US-GcgHL2HM