In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener mail. The discussion moves on to hacking bike counter, homebrew upgrades to the Nintendo Entertainment System, and building RAM from whats in the parts bin. You’ll hear about the latest drop-in upgrade for a classic Casio watch, hosting light bulbs that host subversive literature, and loading Wii U games from a weird disk drive from the 1980s. They’ll wrap things up with a dive into the evolving portrayals of brilliant rebels in media, and all the things you can do with a cheap router.
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Episode 375 Show Notes:
Mailbag:
- Raspberry Pi Locator Website To Shut Down In July
- How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
- Your Car May Be Spying On You. Here’s How to Get It to Stop.
- Old phone as smart wall panel with HA – Mobile Apps – Home Assistant Community
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Tricking A Bike Counter
- Graphics Upgrade For Nintendo Entertainment System
- Dynamic RAM From First Principles
- A Custom PCB For The Casio G-Shock
- Building And Testing A DIY Robot Actuator
- All The Different Lasers, And How Well They Mark 3D Prints
Quick Hacks:
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- Tom’s Picks:
Im in Kentucky and can confirm that a lightweight mostly aluminum motorcycle can trip most sensors if you put a steel side stand down close to the loop. Or at least it’s appears to be enough correlation for me to be satisfied.
About 80% of the time though,my go-to is to look left, look right and then just go if it’s clear.
I’m also guilty of mishearing Elliot on occasion and thinking “did he say campness”, for a while I even thought it may have been campus, LOL
I had to LOL when you talked about using old cell phones for sensors, cameras, etc. Some 11 years ago, knowing almost nothing about Kickstarter or Gofundme, I tried to kick off something to do exactly that, but to nobody’s surprise, it went nowhere. Looking back, though, the video was kind of a hoot, in a cringe sort of way: https://youtu.be/5Ow3KBKcgP8?si=ty3aBzOV6zeIrf0S
It’s not just your car company that is tracking you it could be anyone using opentrafficmap.
“Using an ESP32 to track traffic lights, trams, and cars is largely made possible through C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems). Specialized hardware like the OpenTrafficMap ESP32-C5 relies on the 5.9 GHz WiFi 6 band and the ITS-G5 protocol to process live Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) messages.” there is a talk in German from CCC my German is not good.