Hackaday Podcast 229: DIY VR, Gutting Voice Assistants, and ChatGPT Failing Its Summer Internship

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos braved the slight cold and the high heat respectively to bring you the best hacks of the previous seven days. In the news this week: you’ve got a second and final chance to get your Supercon talk proposals in!  So get on that, because we need YOU to help make Supercon awesome.

We can chalk up a win for Kristina on What’s That Sound this week (finally!). Will you get it right? Will you get it exactly right? Time and Elliot’s fancy dice will tell.

Then it’s on to the hacks, where we check out a cool RFID emulator e-paper badge, discuss whether a certain type of record player is better off as a cyberdeck, and look through the eye of a Gameboy-style camera for the Playdate console.

From there we take a look at gutting and rooting voice assistants, a solenoid keyboard, and a beautifully rebuilt VR headset that now does AR as well. Finally we talk autonomous solar boats, lambast ChatGPT as the worst summer intern ever, and ponder what makes a thing count as Linux or not.

Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!

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Episode 229 Show Notes:

News:

• Procrastinators Rejoice! 2023 Supercon Call For Participation Extended
• Serious Vulnerability In European Trunked Radio System
• VanMoof E-Bike Bankruptcy: The Risks Of Cloud-Connected Transport

What’s that Sound?

• Know the sound? Let us know!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• RFID Emulator + E-paper Badge Can Be Programmed With Sound
  • GGWave Sings The Songs Of Your Data
  • Multi Frequency Shift Keying (MFSK) – Signal Identification Wiki
  • You Can Learn A Lot From A Blinkenrocket
• 2023 Cyberdeck Contest: Crosberry Pi Loves Lo-Fi Hip Hop
• Google Nest Mini Gutted And Rebuilt To Run Custom Agents
• Root, On An Amazon Echo Dot
• Solenoid Keyboard Sounds Very Much Like A Typewriter
  • This Negative Reinforcement Keyboard May Shock You
• Beautifully Rebuilding A VR Headset To Add AR Features
  • Behold A Gallery Of Sony’s PS VR2 Prototypes
  • VR Prototypes Reveal Facebook’s Surprisingly Critical Research Directions
• Game Boy-Style Camera For Playdate

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  • Turning A Quartz Clock Module Into A Time Reference
  • Text-to-Speech Model Can Do Music, Background Noises, And Sound Effects
  • Mapping The Depths With An Autonomous Solar Boat
  • Where Old Files Go To Die
• Kristina’s Picks:
  • Selectric Typewriter Goes From Trash Can To Linux Terminal
  • That Ultra-White Paint That Helps Cool Surfaces? Make Your Own!
  • Restoring The Cheapest TRS-80 At The Swap Meet

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• ChatGPT, The Worst Summer Intern Ever
• Ask Hackaday: What’s Linux Anyway?

Hackaday Podcast 229: DIY VR, Gutting Voice Assistants, and ChatGPT Failing Its Summer Internship
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