Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi begin this episode with a discussion of Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the impending retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels between the wider world of aviation headsets and our personal projects, the discussion moves on to the exciting developments in the world of software-defined radio on the ESP32, a meshtastic pager from a bygone era, and how all the wild flying machines that entered the DARPA Lift Challenge lost to a simple helicopter.
You’ll also hear about turning plastic bottles into printer filament, pushing e-ink screens to their limits, and surfing the web on the PSP in 2026. To round things off, they’ll marvel at all the modern abstraction that sits between software and the memory it runs on, and review some RF concepts that can be especially useful now that everyone is playing with an SDR device.
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Episode 391 Show Notes:
news:
mail bag:
- You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, but sometimes it can be fun. Thank you [Tom Brusehaver] for headphone suggestions.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s choice:
- Tom’s Choice: