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May 15, 2024 • 1h 1min

Episode 783: Teaching Embedded with the Unphone

This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Gareth Coleman and Hamish Cunningham! It's all about the Unphone, an open source handset sporting an ESP32, color touchscreen, and LoRa radio. It's open hardware, and used in a 3rd year university course to teach comp sci majors about hardware and embedded development. https://unphone.net/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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May 8, 2024 • 60min

Episode 782: Nitric -- In Search of the Right Knob

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Rak Siva and Steve Demchuck to talk about Nitric! That's the Infrastructure from Code framework that makes it easy to use a cloud backend in your code, using any of multiple providers, in multiple programming languages. It's a neat project, so check it out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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May 1, 2024 • 1h 8min

Episode 781: Resistant to the Wrath of God

This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for Bittorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do? And what's the secret to keeping the service running even after the servers go down? You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Apr 23, 2024 • 1h 8min

Episode 780: Zoneminder -- Better Call Randal

This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Isaac Connor about Zoneminder! What's it like running a 20 year old project? What's new with Zoneminder? And why is the bleeding edge so exciting? Tune in for the details! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 8min

Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch sit down with Andy Stewart to talk about Andy's Ham Radio Linux (AHRL)! It's the Linux disto designed to give hams the tools they need to work with their radios. What's it like to run a niche Linux distro? How has Andy managed to keep up with this for over a decade? And what's the big announcement about the project breaking today? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 4min

Episode 778: OctoPrint -- People Are Amazing at Breaking Things

This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman sit down with Gina Häußge, and talk about OctoPrint! That's the 3d-printer babysitter that's turned into much more! How has Gina turned it into a career? How does she avoid burnout after more than 10 years at it? And What's the easiest way to get started? All this and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Apr 3, 2024 • 1h 12min

Episode 777: Asterisk -- Wait, Faxes?

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles sit down with Joshua Colp to talk about Asterisk! That's the Open Source phone system software that you probably use way more often than you realize. What's new in Asterisk? What'd the deal with faxes? And will we ever have a real solution for spam calls? You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Mar 27, 2024 • 1h 4min

Episode 776: Dnsmasq, Making the Internet Work since 1999

This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps sit down with Simon Kelley to talk about Dnsmasq! That's a piece of software that was built to get a laptop online over lapLink, and now runs on most of the world's routers and phones. How did we get here, and what does the future of Dnsmasq look like? Listen for the answers! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 3min

Episode 775: Meshtastic Central

This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell sit down with Ben Meadors and Adam McQuilkin to talk about what's new with Meshtastic! There's plenty of new stuff, like native Linux support, a new rust-based client, and plenty more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 12min

Episode 774: Let's Get Rusty

This week Jonathan Bennett sits down with Herbert Wolverson to talk about Rust! Is it really worth the hype? Should you have written that in Rust? What's up with "if let some" anyways? And what's the best way to get started with this exciting language? All this and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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