This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you!
In the news this week is NASA’s Maven Mars Orbiter, which may sadly have been lost. A sad day for study of the red planet, but at the same time a chance to look back at what has been a long and successful mission.
In the hacks of the week, we have a lo-fi camera, a very refined Commodore 64 laptop, and a MIDI slapophone to entertain you, as well as taking a detailed look at neutrino detectors. Then CYMK printing with laser cut stencils draws our attention, as well as the arrival of stable GPIB support for Linux. Finally both staffers let loose; Elliot with an epic rant about spreadsheets, and Jenny enthusiastically describing the Haiku operating system.
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!
It’s dangerous to go alone. Here, take this MP3.
Episode 349 Show Notes:
News:
What’s that Sound?
- Congratulations to [kenbob] for guessing the spinning down washing machine. Everyone else tune in next year for your shot at the first sound of 2026.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Liberating AirPods With Bluetooth Spoofing
- Nostalgic Camera Is A Mashup Of Analog Video Gear
- Neutrino Transmutation Observed For The First Time
- Building A Commodore 64 Laptop
- Taking Electronics To A Different Level
- Finally, A Pipe Slapophone With MIDI
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Jenny’s Picks:
Elliot, do you want to know how my father used spreadsheets to draw architectural floor plans?
It was a general layout of the place, what was connected to what, and the rough relative sizes. The advantage of spreadsheets was that any customer could open it and modify it with suggestions, yet nobody would mistake it with a finished product they could measure for the furniture.
I think it is actually a clever hack.