This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you!

In the news this week is NASA’s Maven Mars Orbiter, which may sadly have been lost. A sad day for study of the red planet, but at the same time a chance to look back at what has been a long and successful mission.

In the hacks of the week, we have a lo-fi camera, a very refined Commodore 64 laptop, and a MIDI slapophone to entertain you, as well as taking a detailed look at neutrino detectors. Then CYMK printing with laser cut stencils draws our attention, as well as the arrival of stable GPIB support for Linux. Finally both staffers let loose; Elliot with an epic rant about spreadsheets, and Jenny enthusiastically describing the Haiku operating system.

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Episode 349 Show Notes:

News:

• NASA May Have Lost The MAVEN Mars Orbiter

What’s that Sound?

• Congratulations to [kenbob] for guessing the spinning down washing machine. Everyone else tune in next year for your shot at the first sound of 2026.

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Liberating AirPods With Bluetooth Spoofing
  
  • GitHub – tyalie/AAP-Protocol-Defintion: Decoding the Apple Accessory Protocol
  • Bypassing Airpods Hearing Aid Georestriction With A Faraday Cage

  
  

• Nostalgic Camera Is A Mashup Of Analog Video Gear
  
  • Hidden Camera Build Proves You Can’t Trust Walnuts

  
  

• Neutrino Transmutation Observed For The First Time
  
  • Detecting Anti-Neutrinos From Distant Fission Reactors Using Pure Water At SNO+
  • Engineering Lessons From The Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory Failure
  • Detecting Neutrinos, The Slippery Ghost Particles That Don’t Want To Interact

  
  

• Building A Commodore 64 Laptop
  
  • 3D Printed Pi Laptop Honors The Iconic GRiD Compass

  
  

• Taking Electronics To A Different Level
  
  • Taking It To Another Level: Making 3.3V Speak With 5V
  • Philips application note 97055, Bi-directional level shifter for I²C-bus and other systems.

  
  

• Finally, A Pipe Slapophone With MIDI

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  
  • WiFi Menorah For Eight Nights Of Bandwidth
  • Laser Cutter Plus CYMK Spraypaint Equals Full-Color Prints
  • Why Push A Button When A Machine Can Do It For You

  
  

• Jenny’s Picks:
  
  • After Decades, Linux Finally Gains Stable GPIB Support
  • 3D Printing And Metal Casting Are A Great Match
  • The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner

  
  

Can’t Miss Articles:

• A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet
• Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Haiku R1/beta5

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