Hackaday Podcast 176: Freezing Hot Water, Hacking Lenses, Listening to Data and Watching YouTube on a PET

It's podcast time again, and this week Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams sat down with Editor-in-Chief Dan Maloney to go over the best hacks on the planet, and a few from the outside. We'll find out the best way to capture lightning, debate the merits of ice water - or ice cream - when it's hot, and see if we can find out what R2D2 was really talking about with all those beeps and blousons. Once we've decoded that, it's time to find out what Tom Nardi was up to while the boss was away with his hidden message in Episode 174, and how the analog-encoded digital data survives the production line and publishing podcasts. But surely you can't watch a YouTube video on a Commodore PET, can you? Turns out that's not a problem, and apparently the 3D printing of a new ear either.

The meat of Elliot's "super secret mastering script"? Use it on your videos too!

ffmpeg -i $infile.wav -c:v copy -af loudnorm=I=-17:LRA=5:tp=-1.5 -ar 44100 $outfile.flac

Download directly, save it to tape and play it on your boombox.

Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, let us know what you think of this episode in the comments!

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