Hackaday Podcast Episode 308: The Worst 1 Ever, Google’s Find My Opened, and SAR on a Drone
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Summary
The Hackaday Podcast celebrated Valentine’s Day this week, discussing some interesting hacks from the world of hardware, including a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system mounted on a cheap quadcopter and a software-defined radio (SDR) made using different projects that are part of Tiny Tapeout ASICs.
The SAR system is a stand-out hack of the week, pushing the limits of construction, design, and computation to create landscape imagery of astounding detail.
The SDR isn’t the best ever, but it represents a major milestone in which Tiny Tapeout makes the jump from proof of concept to component, something the podcastarers look forward to more of at more reasonable prices in the future.
Beyond that, the podcast covered the porting of Google Find My to the ESP32, how to repair broken zippers, and tuning in to ultrasonic sounds.
