Hackaday Podcast Ep 322: Fake Hackaday Writers, New Retro Computers, and a Web Rant
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Summary
In this week’s episode of the Hackaday podcast, hosts Elliot Williams and Jenny List discuss the sad news of the passing of Ed Smylie, the engineer who saved the Apollo 13 astronauts through the invention of an improvised carbon dioxide filter made with duct tape.
It was also announced that the Hackaday Supercon is calling for people to share their ideas and projects.
Other discussions include a new Mac Plus motherboard, Doom running on an Atari ST, the LoRa secure messenger, and an open-source Ethernet switch.
They also delve into the Mouse programming language and quick hacks such as a homemade semiconductor dopant and a cyberdeck based on a Mac Mini.
Finally, colleague Maya Posch argues for a graceful degradation of web standards and an analysis of whether ChatGPT can emulate a Hackaday scribe (it can’t).
The key points are: (1) Ed Smylie saved Apollo 13 with a CO2 filter; (2) Call for participation: Hackaday Supercon; (3) Interesting Hacks: YouTuber to open source, New Mac Plus motherboard, Secure messenger, Ethernet switch; (4) The Mouse Language, DOOM on Atari ST;
