Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned In To ESP32 SDR, New Previous Pagers, And Bugs On Mars
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi begin this episode off with a dialogue about Philadelphia’s budding hacker convention and the approaching retirement of the EZ80. After contemplating the parallels between the vast planet of aviation headsets and our private tasks, speak strikes on to the thrilling developments within the planet of software-defined radio on the ESP32, a Meshtastic pager from a bygone period, and the way all of the wild flying machines entered into DARPA’s Lift Challenge ended up shedding to a easy helicopter.
You’ll additionally hear about turning plastic bottles into printer filament, pushing e-ink screens to their limits, and looking the net on the PSP in 2026. To wrap issues up they’ll marvel in any respect the trendy abstraction sitting between software program and the reminiscence it’s working on, and revisit some RF ideas that may be notably helpful now that everybody is taking part in with a brand new SDR gadget.
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- You don’t should reinvent the wheel, however typically it may be enjoyable. Thanks [Tom Brusehaver] for the headphone recommendations.
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