This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up in a brand new disposable location to offer the lowdown on this week’s finest hacks. First up within the information — the Home Sweet Home Automation contest continues to be going sturdy. You’ve nonetheless acquired loads of time, so get on over to Hackaday.IO and start your entry today. In the information, the UK is asking how highly effective an electrical bike ought to be (greater than 250 Watts, actually), and authorized strain from Nintendo has shut down two emulators.
Kristina’s cigar field kalimba…
…with hand-wound pickup!
Then it’s on to What’s That Sound. Kristina failed once more, though she was fairly assured about her reply. Can you get it? Can you work it out? Can you guess what’s making that sound this week? If you may, and your quantity comes up, you get a particular Hackaday Podcast t-shirt.
But then it’s on to the hacks, starting with a Wi-Fi toothbrush hack from [Aaron Christophel]. This can solely imply the start of some epic toothbrush firmware, proper? From there, we marvel at transferring cat meals, the ultimate bulk materials, and the concept of spoofing an entire cloud of drones. Finally, we study one in all Jenny’s Daily Drivers within the type of Damn Small Linux (the opposite DSL), and reminisce about dial-up (talking of DSL).
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