Elliot does the podcast on the road to Supercon Europe, and Al is in the mood for math and nostalgia this week. Listen in and find out what they were reading on Hackaday this week.
The guys talked about the ESP-32 non-backdoor and battery fires. Then it was on to the hacks.
Self-balancing robots and satellite imaging were the appetizers, but soon they moved on to Kinect cameras in the modern day. Think you can’t travel at the speed of light? Turns out that maybe you already are.
Did you know there was a chatbot in 1957? Well, sort of. For the can’t miss stories: watches monitor your heart and what does the number e really mean?
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Episode 312 Show Notes:
News:
- The ESP32 Bluetooth Backdoor That Wasn’t
- Open Safety In The Auto Business: Renault Shares Its Battery Fire Suppression Tech
- Hackaday Europe 2025 Welcomes David Cuartielles, Announces Friday Night Bring-a-Hack
What’s that Sound?
- We had a ton of answers this week, and many of them were correct. It was a disposable film camera being wound and shot. Congratulations to [Bobby Tables] for getting the correct answer and winning the webcam-driven dice toss.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Taming The Wobble: An Arduino Self-Balancing Bot
- PIDDYBOT – A Self Balancing Teaching Tool
- Building A Self-Balancing Robot Made Easy
- Self-balancing Arduino Does It Without An IMU
- Yet Another Self-Balancing Unicycle
- Self-balancing Robot Keeps Things On The Straight And Narrow
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_predictive_control
- https://github.com/kerrj/segway
- Satellite Imagery You Can Play With
- The Strange Afterlife Of The Xbox Kinect
- You Are Already Traveling At The Speed Of Light
- Lies, Damned Lies, And IGBT Datasheets
- Fictional Computers: EMERAC Was The Chatbot Of 1957
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Al’s Picks:
Can’t-Miss Articles:
- Pixel Watch 3’s Loss Of Pulse Detection: The Algorithms That Tell Someone Is Dying
- You Know Pi But Do You Really Know E?
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