Elliot Williams is out where the deer and the antelope play for the next week, so it’s up to Tom Nardi and Al Williams to wrangle this episode of the Hackaday Podcast. They’ll start off by reading some listener messages before talking about the slow extinction of time broadcasts, Linux on cheap smartphones, microcontroller VPNs, and the computers of Spacelab.
You’ll also hear about using a video game’s “Photo Mode” to capture 3D imagery, strange red lights in deep space, and ASCII fish that you don’t need to feed. The episode wraps up with a discussion of WWII spy tech and the revelation that modern smartphones and powerful magnets don’t always mix.
Check out the links if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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Episode 371 Show Notes:
Mailbag:
- Linux Fu: The Cheap Macropad Conundrum
- GitHub – islcom/peismo: A simple seismograph for Raspberry Pi · GitHub
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode
- Running A VPN Gateway On An ESP32
- Spacelab’s Mitra 125 MS
Quick Hacks:
- Tom’s Picks:
- Al’s Picks:
In the time beacons one shutdown that was missed was BBC radio 4 longwave on 198khz was 200khz.
this was a radio station, frequency source and controlled UK central heating. I think Jenny has done some articles. this one is close to my heart, as I worked there back in the 80s. they only have 2 valves(tubes) left. closing by end of this month!
For recycling old smart phones, it’d be cool if there were a platform that you could plug various old phones into and get a growing farm of peripherals like storage, RAM, CPUs and GPUs available for a home server. Probably too pie-in-the-sky, but if anyone knows of any projects moving this direction I’d love to hear about it.