Hackaday Podcast Ep 104: Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs

Hackaday Podcast Ep 104: Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys spin the wheel of hardware hacking brilliance. We’re enamored with the quest for a root shell on a Nissan Xterra infotainment system, and smitten with a scanning microscope that uses a laser beam and precision positioning from DVD drives. We speculate on the future of artificial intelligence in the culinary arts. And this week turned up a clever way to monitor utility usage while only changing the battery on your sensor once per year.

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