What did Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams find interesting on Hackaday this week? Well, honestly, all the posts, but they had to pick some to share with you in the podcast below. There’s news about SuperCon 2024, and failing insulin pumps. After a mystery sound, the guys jump into reverbing garden hoses, Z80s, and even ribbon cable repair.

Adaptive tech was big this week, with a braille reader for smartphones and an assistive knife handle. The quick hacks ranged from a typewriter that writes on toast to a professional-looking but homemade ham radio transceiver.

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!

Download a file chock full of podcast here.

Episode 271 Show Notes:

News:

• Software Bug Results In Insulin Pump Injuries, Spurs Recall
• Hackaday Supercon 2024 Call For Participation: We Want You!

What’s that Sound?

• Do you know what this week’s sound is? Fill out this form with your best guess, and you might win!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• An Audio Delay, The Garden Hose Way
  • The Most Famous Room In Rock-n-Roll You’ve Never Seen
  • A History of Reverb in Music Production
  • A Tape Loop Echo You Can Build
  • It’s A Microphone And A Spring Reverb All In One
• Protoboard Z80 Computer Teaches The Basics
  • Retrocomputing For $4 With A Z80
  • The $4 Z80 Single-Board Computer, Evolved
  • Supercon 2023: Building The Ultimate Apple IIe, Decades Later
• BreadboardOS, A Command Line Interface For The Pico
• The Impossible Repair: Ribbon Cables
• Adaptive Chef’s Knife Provides Better Leverage
  • Nurses Create In A Medical Makerspace
• Vibrating Braille Display Is Portable

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Introduction To MOSFET Switching Losses
  • Non-Split-Flap Clock Does It With Fewer Flaps
  • JTAG Hacking An SSD With A Pi: A Primer
  • This Typewriter Types Toast
• Al’s Picks:
  • How AI Large Language Models Work, Explained Without Math
  • Tweeze Your Way To Soldering Success!
  • GitHub Hosts Ham Radio

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Measure Three Times, Design Once
• A Slice Of Simulation, Google Sheets Style