In this week’s podcast, non-brothers Elliot Williams and Al Williams talk about our favorite hacks of the week. Elliot’s got analog on the brain, courtesy of the ongoing Op Amp Contest, and Al is all about the retrocomputers, from a thrift-store treasure to an old, but still incredibly serviceable, voice synthesizer. Both agree that they love clever uses of mechanical parts and that nobody should fear the FET.
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2023 Hackaday Prize: The Assistive Tech Challenge Starts Now
Congrats to [Mr SDR] for guessing the sound of the week!
Retrotechtacular: Putting Pictures On The Wire In The 1930s
Retrotechtacular: FAX As A Service In 1984
FAXing In 1843
AP Wirephoto Blog
Make Your ESP32 Talk Like It’s The 80s Again
Very Slow Movie Player Avoids E-Ink Ghosting With Machine Learning
The Shuttle Engine Needed 3D Printing, But…
Op Amp Contest: A Slice Of The ’70s
Ask Hackaday: Split Rail Op Amp Power Supply
Mystery 1802 Computer Was A Homebrew Project
Elliot’s Picks:
Low-Cost RF Power Sensor Gets All The Details Right
Messing With A Cassette Player Never Sounded So Good
$60 Robot Arm Is Compact
Al’s Picks:
Run Linux by Emulating RISC-V on a RISC-V Microcontroller
Half Crystal Radio, Half Regenerative Radio
Tiny Three-Tube Receiver Completes Spy Radio Suite
The BSides: More Curious Uses Of Off-the-shelf Parts
FET: The Friendly Efficient Transistor
