Hackaday Podcast Episode 353: Fantastic Peripherals, Fake or Not Fake Picos, and Everything on the Steam Deck
Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they swap their favorite hacks and stories from the week. In this episode, they’ll start off by marveling over the evolution of the “smart knob” and other open hardware input devices, then discuss a futuristic propulsion technology you can demo in your own kitchen sink, and a cheap handheld game system that get’s a new lease on life thanks to the latest version of the ESP32 microcontroller.
From there they’ll cover spinning CRTs, creating custom GUIs on Android, and yet another thing you can build of out that old Ender 3 collecting dust in the basement. The episode wraps up with a discussion about putting Valve’s Steam Deck to work and a look at the history-making medical evacuation of the International Space Station.
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Simplifying The SmartKnob
- Yamato-1: The World’s First Ship With Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion
- When Electricity Doesn’t Take The Shortest Path
- Looking At A Real Fake Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board
- An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet
- ESP32-P4 Powers Retro Handheld After A Transplant
- Teardown: 168-in-1 Retro Handheld Game
- GitHub – ducalex/retro-go: Retro emulation for the ODROID-GO and other ESP32 devices
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Hacking The Krups Cook4Me Smart Cooking Pot For Doom
- Great Trains, Not So Great AI Chatbot Security
- An SD Card Of Your Own For Microcontroller Projects
- Making A CRT Spin Right Round, Round, Round
- Tom’s Picks:
- Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard
- Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable
- EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM Machine!
