Ep083: Soooo Many Custom Peripherals, Leaving Bluetooth Footprints, and a Twirlybird on Mars

Hackaday Podcast

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams ogle the greatest hacks from the past 168 hours. Did you know that Mars Rover didn't get launched into space all alone? Nestled in it's underbelly is a two-prop helicopter that's a fascinating study in engineering for a different world. Fingerprinting audio files isn't a special trick reserved for Shazam, you can do it just as easily with an ESP32. A flaw in the way Bluetooth COVID tracing frameworks chirp out their anonymized hashes means they're not as perfectly anonymized as planned. And you're going to love these cool ways to misuse items from those massive parts catalogs. Show notes: https://hackaday.com/?p=430419