Hackaday Podcast 107: FTDI Plays Music, LED Dimming Ain’t Easy, Measuring Poop Calories, and Sketchy Laser Cutters
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams gab about all of the geeky things. We had a delightful time watching NASA bring Perseverance down to the Red planet. In Kristina’s words, we pour one out for Fry’s Electronics. And then we jump into a parade of excellent hacks with a magnetic bearing for crooked ball screws, a science-based poop-burning experiment, and the music hack only microcontroller enthusiasts could love as an FTDI cable is plugged directly into a speaker. Smart circuit design is used to hack a dimmer into non-dimmable LED fixtures, and an octet of living clams are the early warning sensors for water pollution.
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Internet Of Clams
- Audio Out Over A UART With An FTDI USB-To-TRS Cable
- Ben Krasnow Measures Human Calorie Consumption By Collecting The “Output”
- Improving Cheap Ball Screws
- Hacking A Non-Dimmable LED Fixture
- Homebrew Doorknob Caps For High-Voltage Fun
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