Ep070: Memory Bump, Strontium Rain, Sentient Solder Smoke, and Botting Browsers - podcast episode cover

Ep070: Memory Bump, Strontium Rain, Sentient Solder Smoke, and Botting Browsers

Jun 05, 202056 min
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Episode description

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys bubble sort a sample set of amazing hacks from the past week. Who has every used the smart chip from an old credit card in as a functional component in their own circuit? This guy. There's something scientifically devious about the way solder smoke heat-seeks to your nostrils. There's more than one way to strip 16-bit audio down to five. And those nuclear tests from the 40s, 50s, and 60s? Those are still affecting how science takes measurements of all sorts of things in the world. Show notes: https://hackaday.com/?p=415952
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