It’s podcast time again, and this time around Elliot and Dan took a grand tour through the week’s best and brightest hacks. We checked out an old-school analog cell phone that went digital with style, dug into a washing machine’s API, and figured out how to melt metal in the microwave — the right way. Does coffee taste better when it’s made by a robot? Of course it does! Can you get a chatbot to spill its guts? You can, if you know how to sweet talk it. Let’s play Asteroids on an analog oscilloscope, spoof facial recognition with knitting, and feel the need for speed with an AI-controlled model race car. And was VCF East worth the wait? According to Tom Nardi, that’s a resounding “Yes!”
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight
An Up-Close Look at the First Martian Helicopter
Hackaday Prize: Re-engineering Education Challenge Wraps Up Soon
Internet Of Washing Machines Solves An Annoyance
Custom Bluetooth Adapter Brings 1990s Car Phone Back Online
Robot Races A Little Smarter To Go Faster
Radio Waves Bring The Heat With This Microwave-Powered Forge
Lost PLA Casting With A Little Help From Your Microwave
RoboGaggia Makes Espresso Coffee On Its Own
Hacking Bing Chat With Hash Tag Commands
Elliot’s Picks:
Raspberry Pi Camera Conversion Leads To Philosophical Question
A Clock Timebase, No Microcontroller
A Low-Noise Amplifier To Quantify Resistor Noise
Dan’s Picks:
Need To Pick Objects Out Of Images? Segment Anything Does Exactly That
Circumvent Facial Recognition With Yarn
Bust Out That Old Analog Scope For Some Velociraster Fun!
Vintage Computer Festival East Was A Retro Madhouse
Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 10.0 — 2023 – Vintage Computer Federation
