This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi find themselves in the middle of a slow news week, so they dispense with the usual timely chit-chat and dive right into the results of a particularly tricky “What’s that Sound” challenge.
From there they’ll cover the new breed of ATtiny microcontollers (and why you probably won’t be buying them), a recently unearthed Z-80 consumer gadget that’s begging to be reverse engineered, the fine art of electrifying watercraft, and a particularly impressive speech recognition engine. Stick around till the end to hear about the potential dangers of unsecured EV chargers, and take a walk down memory lane to a time when soldering irons and paper schematics ruled the world.
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!
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The week’s sound was static electricity generated by a CRT display. Congrats to [Nate from Chile (from Detroit)]
Come Learn About New ATtiny Generations
Technoblogy – Getting Started with the New ATtiny Chips
GitHub – SpenceKonde/megaTinyCore: Arduino core for the tinyAVR 0/1/2-series
GitHub – qbolsee/serialupdi: a Python utility for Microchip CMSIS-DAP based debuggers
GitHub – mraardvark/pyupdi: Python UPDI driver
pymcuprog · PyPI
NABU PC – A 1984 Z-80 Computer You Can Buy Today
DIY Self-Assembling 4D Printing
This Electric Outboard Conversion Makes For A Quiet Day On The Water
Electrifying A Vintage Outboard Motor
Here’s A Plain C/C++ Implementation Of AI Speech Recognition, So Get Hackin’
GitHub – openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
whisper.cpp/examples/talk.wasm at master · ggerganov/whisper.cpp · GitHub
Making 3D Print Time-lapses With Old Earphones And A Few Spare Parts
Automatic Print Ejector For All 3D Printers
Elliot’s Picks:
Tesla Coil Makes Sodium Plasma
Interfacing An Old Engine Cowl Flaps Indicator To USB
I’ve Got Two Turntables And A Laser Engraver
Laser Cut Your Own Vinyl Records
Tom’s Picks:
Portable Commodore 64 Lives!
Blackout Logger Keeps Track Of Power Outages
Telnet Gets Stubborn Sony Camera Under Control
