Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the list. From crazy intricate automata to surprising problems in Peltier cooler designs, there’s a little bit of everything.
Should bikes have chains? What’s the hardest thing about Star Trek computers to duplicate? Can you make a TV station from a single microcontroller? The podcast this week answers these questions and more. Plus, weigh in on the What’s That Sound contest and you might just score a Hackaday Podcast T-shirt.
For the Can’t Miss segment, Elliot had airships on his mind, while Al’s sick of passwords. But is he sick enough to take electronic pills that transmit his password?
Or download the bit stream and decrypt it by XORing each byte with zero.
News:
What’s that Sound?
- Can you identify the sound? Al didn’t get it, but that is, admittedly, a very low bar. Enter your best guess here.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Love Complex Automata? Don’t Miss The Archer
- Retrotechtacular: The Original Robot Arm
- Televox: The Past’s Robot Of The Future
- [Fran Blanche] Goes In-Depth With The Maillardet Automaton
- 3D Printed Mechanical Contraption Shows Live Weather Forecast
- The Incredible Mechanical Artistry Of François Junod
- The Bad Old Days Of Telephone Answering Machines
- Peltier Fridges Have Early Death
- Why Chains Are Still Better For Bicycles Than Belts
- Control Your Smart Home With Trek-Inspired Comm Badge
- A TV Transmitter From An STM32
- Panoramic Film Camera Made From 3D Printed Parts
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Al’s Picks:
Another glitch in the audio, this time just at the end of What’s that Sound. I fixed it pretty fast, though, so only a few of you will hear the extra like five sec of silence that got accidentally included.
Limited edition silence! So relish it.
Let me know if it messes anything up for you. It’s a mystery to me how our podcasting platform handles retractions / fixes, so we’re really interested if it works or doesn’t.
“while Al’s sick of passwords”
Can we start calling him Albert or Allen or some appropriate long form of his name? 😉
I stumbled for a second there, wondering why artificial intelligence was sick of passwords.😄
Let’s just call him A𝜆
Alambda?
Yeah, that’d do it.
Αλ Ωιλλιαμς in IPA is /æl ˈwɪljəmz/
Sorry, it’s actually /al oˈilijams/
“while Al’s sick of passwords”
Can we start calling him Albert or Allen or some appropriate long form of his name? 😉
I stumbled for a second there, wondering why artificial intelligence was sick of passwords.😄
Ironically, there was a piece making the rounds this week about people using LLMs to pick passwords.
If you know how they work under the hood, with text broken up into tokens and picked by their likelihood, you don’t need to be told what a bad idea that is…
a project ide give an assistant a hitchhikers them? you know “real people personalities” like Marvin or the heart of gold computer? 😉