Hackaday Podcast
280 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsHackaday Editors take a look at all of the interesting uses of technology that pop up on the internet each week. Topics cover a wide range like bending consumer electronics to your will, designing circuit boards, building robots, writing software, 3D printing interesting objects, and using machine tools. Get your fix of geeky goodness from new episodes every Friday morning.
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Ep 218: Open Source AI, The Rescue of Salyut 7, The Homework Machine
May 12, 2023 15:30 - 48 minutes - 56.8 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos have much in the way of Hackaday news -- the Op Amp Challenge is about halfway over, and there are roughly three weeks left in the Assistive Tech challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize. Show us what you've got on the analog front, and then see what you can do to help people with disabilities to live better lives! Kristina is still striking out on What's That Sound, which this week honestly sounded much more horrendous and mechanic...
Ep 217: The Unintentional Space and 3D Printing Episode
May 05, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBHackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi definitely didn't plan on devoting most of this episode to 3D printing and space stories, but let's be honest, it was bound to happen sooner or later. After an update on the Hackaday Prize, the discussion moves on to a pair of troubled spacecraft and the challenges of exploring the final frontier. From there you'll hear about a chocolate 3D printer we've had our eyes on for years, the tools you should have next to your own (non-chocolate) 3D p...
Ep 217: The Unintentional Space and 3D Printing Episode
May 05, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBHackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi definitely didn't plan on devoting most of this episode to 3D printing and space stories, but let's be honest, it was bound to happen sooner or later. After an update on the Hackaday Prize, the discussion moves on to a pair of troubled spacecraft and the challenges of exploring the final frontier. From there you'll hear about a chocolate 3D printer we've had our eyes on for years, the tools you should have next to your own (non-chocolate) 3D p...
Ep 216: FETs, Fax, and Electrochemical Fab
April 28, 2023 15:30 - 47 minutes - 53.1 MBIn this week's podcast, non-brothers Elliot Williams and Al Williams talk about our favorite hacks of the week. Elliot's got analog on the brain, courtesy of the ongoing Op Amp Contest, and Al is all about the retrocomputers, from a thrift-store treasure to an old, but still incredibly serviceable, voice synthesizer. Both agree that they love clever uses of mechanical parts and that nobody should fear the FET. Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us wh...
Ep 215: Autonomous Race Car, Espresso Robot, and Vintage Computers
April 21, 2023 15:30 - 58 minutes - 62 MBIt's podcast time again, and this time around Elliot and Dan took a grand tour through the week's best and brightest hacks. We checked out an old-school analog cell phone that went digital with style, dug into a washing machine's API, and figured out how to melt metal in the microwave -- the right way. Does coffee taste better when it's made by a robot? Of course it does! Can you get a chatbot to spill its guts? You can, if you know how to sweet talk it. Let's play Asteroids on an analog osc...
Ep 214: Jet Engine Hair Dryer, Comic Sans Type Balls, and Belief in Graphene
April 14, 2023 15:30 - 46 minutes - 55 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Contributor Emeritus Kristina Panos gushed about all the best hacks of the previous week. But first, a contest! That's right -- hot on the heels of the Low Power Challenge comes the Op Amp Challenge, sponsored by Digi-Key. You have between now and June 6th to dip your toes into the warm waters of analog and show us what you've got. Will it be a musical hack? Will you seek high analog precision? We can't wait to see. Kristina definitely did not...
Ep 213: Not your Grandfather's Grandfather Clock, the Engineering Behind Art, Hydrogen Powered Flight
April 07, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBJoin Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they review some of their favorite hacks and projects of the past week. The episode starts with a discussion about the recently announced Artemis II crew, and how their mission compares to the Apollo program of the 1960s and 70s. From there, the pair theorize as to why Amazon's family of Echo devices have managed to evade eager hardware hackers, take a look at a very impressive SMD soldering jig created with some fascinating OpenSCAD c...
Ep 212: Staring through ICs, Reading Bloom Filters, and Repairing, Reworking, and Reballing
March 31, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBIt was quite the cornucopia of goodness this week as Elliot and Dan sat down to hash over the week in hardware hacking. We started with the exciting news that the Hackaday Prize is back -- already? -- for the tenth year running! The first round, Re-Engineering Education, is underway now, and we're already seeing some cool entries come in. The Prize was announced at Hackday Berlin, about which Elliot waxed a bit too. Speaking of wax, if you're looking to waterproof your circuits, that's just ...
Ep 211: Pocket Sundial, Origami Llama, PCB Spacemouse
March 24, 2023 15:30 - 39 minutes - 47.2 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Contributor Emeritus Kristina Panos chewed the fat about the coolest hacks of the previous week. But first, a bit of news -- our Low Power Challenge fizzled out this week, and boy did we have a lot of entries at the last minute. We love to see it though, and we're going to get judging done ASAP. Don't forget, this weekend is Hackaday Berlin! Livestreaming for this one may be iffy, but we'll have the talks up for you eventually, so don't fret ...
Ep 210: Living in the Future, Flipper Mayhem, and Samsung Moons the World
March 17, 2023 15:30 - 57 minutes - 62.2 MBEditor-in-Chief Elliot Williams is joined this week by newly minted Development Editor (and definitely not brother) Al Williams to bring you the weekly highlights from our little corner of the Internet. Between the rapidly approaching deadline for the Low-Power Challenge to Samsung creating a fake Moon with artificial intelligence, there's plenty in the news to get this episode started. From there, the Williams plural discuss using a webcam for cheap virtual reality thrills, an impressive ...
Ep 209: HDMI Tempest, Norm Upscaled, Seeing Electrons, and When the Radios Go Silent
March 10, 2023 16:30 - 56 minutes - 57.7 MBIt was one of those weeks, where Elliot and Dan found a bounty of interesting hacks to choose from for the podcast, making it hard to pick. But pick we did, and we found so many deep and important questions. What good is a leaky HCMI cable? Good for falling down a TEMPEST-like rabbit hole, that's what. Why would you use a ton of clay to make a car? Because it's cool, that's why. What does an electron look like? A little like a wiggling wire, but mostly it looks like a standing wave... of wav...
Ep 208: Hallucinating Robots, Floppy Cartridges, and a Flexure Synth French Horn
March 03, 2023 16:30 - 40 minutes - 47.7 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and (former Assignments Editor) Kristina Panos stood around talking about the greatest hacks of the previous week. But first, we've got a contest running now through March 21st -- the Low Power Challenge! Kristina almost got What's That Sound this week, but could only describe it as some sort of underwater organ, so still no t-shirt for her. But [BalkanBoy] knew exactly what it was -- the Zadar Sea Organ in Croatia. Then it's on to the hacks, beg...
Ep 207: Modular Furniture, Plastic Prosthetics, and Your Data on YouTube
February 24, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBJoin Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they explore the best and most interesting stories from the last week. The top story if of course the possibility that at least some of the unidentified flying objects the US Air Force valiantly shot down were in fact the work of amateur radio enthusiasts, but a quantitative comparison of NASA's SLS mega-rocket to that of popular breakfast cereals is certainly worth a mention as well. Afterwards the discussion will range...
Ep 206: Busted Crypto Killed the Queen, Kicad's New Clothes, Peer Inside the Sol 20
February 17, 2023 17:42 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBUnder the weather though they both were, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney got together to take a look under the covers of this week's best and brightest hacks. It was a banner week, with a look at the changes that KiCad has in store, teaching a CNN how to play "Rock, Paper, Scissors," and going deep into the weeds on JPEG. We dipped a toe into history, too, with a look at one of the sexiest early hobbyist computers, seeing how citizen scientists are finding anci...
Ep 205: Hackaday Berlin, So Many Sundials, and Ovens Pinging Google
February 10, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 68 MBEditor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi start this week's episode off with the announcement of Hackaday Berlin on March 25th. It's been quite some time since we've been on the other side of the pond, because we had to cancel 2020's Hackaday Belgrade due to COVID-19, so excitement is high for all three days of this "one-day" event. After a new What's that Sound, discussion moves on to an impressive collection of DIY sundials, the impact filament color has on the streng...
Ep 204: Cesium, Colorful Cast Buttons, and CNC Pizza
February 03, 2023 16:30 - 42 minutes - 49.1 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos met up over thousands of miles to discuss the hottest hacks of the past seven days. There's a whole lot of news this week, and the really good part is the the small radioactive source that went missing in Australia has been found. Phew! Kristina is still striking out on What's That Sound, but we're sure you'll fare better. If you think you know what it is, fill out the form and you'll be entered to win a covet...
Ep 203: Flashlight Fuel Fails, Weird DMA Machines, and a 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand Flex
January 27, 2023 17:26 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi meet up virtually to talk about all the hacks that are fit to print. This week's episode starts off with a discussion about the recently unveiled 2023 Hackaday.io Low-Power Challenge, and how hackers more often than not thrive when forced to work within these sort of narrow parameters. Discussion then continues to adding a virtual core to the RP2040, crowd-sourced device reliability information, and mechanical Soviet sp...
Ep 202: CNC Monks, Acrobot, Bootleg Merch, and the Rise and Fall of Megahex
January 20, 2023 16:30 - 39 minutes - 47 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos stood around and marveled at machinery in its many forms, from a stone-cutting CNC to an acrobatic robot to an AI-controlled Twitch v-tuber. But before all of that, we took a look at the winners of our FPV Vehicle Contest, poured one out for Google Stadia, and Elliot managed to stump Kristina once again with this week's What's That Sound. Will you fare better? Later, we drooled over an open-source smart watch,...
Ep 201: Faking a Transmission, Making Nuclear Fuel, and a Slidepot With a Twist
January 13, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBEven for those with paraskevidekatriaphobia, today is your lucky day as Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney sit under ladders with umbrellas while holding black cats to talk about the week in awesome hacks. And what a week it was, with a Scooby Doo code review, mushrooms in your PCBs, and the clickiest automatic transmission that never was. Have you ever flashed the firmware on a $4 wireless sensor? Maybe you should try. Wondering how to make a rotary Hall sensor det...
Ep 200: Happy New Year, the Ultimate Game Boy, and Python All the Things
January 06, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi ring in the New Year with...well, pretty much the same stuff they do every other week. After taking some time to talk about the nuts and bolts of the podcast in honor of Episode 200, discussion moves on to favorite stories of the week including an impeccably cloned Dyson lamp, one hacker's years-long quest to build the ultimate Game Boy, developing hardware in Python, building a breadboard computer with the 6502's simpl...
Ep 199: Ferrofluid Follies, Decentralized Chaos, and NTSC for You and Me
December 30, 2022 17:00 - 44 minutes - 51.9 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos decided against using one of Kristina's tin can microphones to record the podcast, though that might be a cool optional thing to do once (and then probably never again). After a brief foray into the news that the Chaos Communications Congress will be decentralized once again this year, as COVID restrictions make planning this huge event a complete headache (among other notable symptoms), we discuss the news th...
Ep 198: Major Tom on the ISS, 3DP Ovals and Overhangs, Inside a Mini Cheetah Clone
December 23, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBAs we slide into the Christmas, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney look at the best and brightest of this week's hacks. It wasn't an easy task -- so much good stuff to choose from! But they figured it out, and talked about everything from impossible (and semi-fractal) 3D printing overhangs and the unfortunate fishies of Berlin's ex-aquarium, to rolling your own FM radio station and how a spinning Dorito of doom is a confusing way to make an electric vehicle better. ...
Ep 197: Decoding VHS, Engineering the TV Guardian, and Gitting Code Into Your ESP32s
December 16, 2022 16:30 - 43 minutes - 51.2 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos delighted in the aural qualities of Kristina's brand new, real (read: XLR) microphone before embarking on creating a podcast highlighting the best of the previous week's hacks. This week in the news, NASA returned to the Moon with Artemis I, and this time, there are CubeSats involved. After that, it's on to the What's That Sound results show, marred by Kristina's cheating scandal (listening ahead of time) and ...
Ep 196: Flexing Hard PCBs, Dangers of White Filament, and the Jetsons' Kitchen Computer
December 09, 2022 17:00 - 58 minutes - 63.2 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi start the Hackaday Podcast by talking about another podcast that's talking about...Hackaday. Or more accurately, the recent Hackaday Supercon. After confirming the public's adoration, conversation moves on to designing flexible PCBs with code, adding a rotary dial to your mechanical keyboard, and a simulator that lets you visualize an extinction-level event. We'll wrap things up by playing the world's smallest violin fo...
Ep 195: No NABU for You, Self-Assembling 3D Prints, Black Hats Look at EV Chargers
December 02, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi find themselves in the middle of a slow news week, so they dispense with the usual timely chit-chat and dive right into the results of a particularly tricky "What's that Sound" challenge. From there they'll cover the new breed of ATtiny microcontollers (and why you probably won't be buying them), a recently unearthed Z-80 consumer gadget that's begging to be reverse engineered, the fine art of electrifying watercraft,...
Ep 194: FPV Contest, Seven Words, Lots of Coffee, and Edible Drones
November 25, 2022 16:30 - 49 minutes - 57.5 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos fumbled through setting up Mumble on Kristina's new-ish computer box before hitting record and talking turkey. First off, we've got a fresh new contest going on, and this time it's all about the FPVs. Then we see if Kristina can stump Elliot once again with a sound from her vast trove of ancient technologies. Then there's much ado about coffee roasters of all stripes, and you know we're both coffee enthusiasts...
Ep 193: Found Computers, Internet Over WhatsApp, Two-Factor C64, Shifting Cars, and Self-Shooting Fighter Planes
November 18, 2022 17:30 - 58 minutes - 60.5 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney review the literature on a hack-packed week of action. We'll find a Linux machine inside just about anything, including curb-side TVs and surprisingly secure EV chargers. No Internet? No problem -- just tunnel IP through WhatsApp! We'll see that 3D printers can be repurposed for lab automation of the cheap, build the worst -- but coolest -- 2FA dongle of all time, and see how a teetering tower of cards can make your old ...
Ep 192: Supercon was Awesome, How to Grind ICs and Make Your Own Telescope
November 11, 2022 16:40 - 59 minutes - 69.6 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi are still flying high on their post-Supercon buzz (and are a bit jet lagged) this week. We'll start with some of the highlights from our long-awaited Pasadena meetup, and talk a bit about the winner of this year's Hackaday Prize. Talk will then shift over to shaved down NES chips, radioactive Dungeons and Dragons gameplay, an impressive 3D printed telescope being developed by the community, and the end of the Slingbox. ...
Ep 191: Researchers Parse Starlink, Switches Sense Muscles, and LFT Plays the Commodordion
October 28, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 68 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney get together for a look at everything cool under the hardware-hacking sun. Think you need to learn how to read nerve impulses to run a prosthetic hand? Think again -- try spring-loaded plungers and some Hall effect sensors. What's Starlink saying? We're not sure, but if you're clever enough you can use the radio link for ad hoc global positioning. Historically awful keyboards, pan-and-scan cable weather stations, invis...
Ep 190: Fun with Resin Printing, Tiny Tanks, Lo-Fi Orchestra, and Deep Thoughts with Al Williams
October 21, 2022 13:18 - 45 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos rendezvoused in yet another secret, throwaway location to rap about the hottest hacks from the previous week. We start off by gushing about the winners of the Cyberdeck Contest, and go wild over the Wildcard round winners from the Hackaday Prize. It's the What's That Sound? results show, and Kristina was ultimately stumped by the sound of the Kansas City Standard, though she should have at least ventured a gu...
Ep 189: Seven Segments Three Ways, Candle Code, DIY E-Readers, and the Badge Reveal
October 14, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBThis week Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi will discuss the return of the East Coast RepRap Festival, the scientific application of slices of baloney, and the state of the art in homebrew e-readers. The discussion weaves its way through various reimaginings of the seven (or more) segment display, an impressive illuminated headboard that comes with its own science-fiction film, and the surprising difficulty of getting a blinking LED to actually look like ...
Ep 188: Zapping Cockroaches, Tricking AIs, Antique 3D Scanning, and Grinding Chips to QFN
October 07, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBIt's déjà vu all over again as Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams gets together with Staff Writer Dan Maloney to look over the best hacks from the past week. If you've got a fear of giant cockroaches, don't worry; we'll only mention the regular ones when we talk about zapping them with lasers. What do you need to shrinkify an NES? Just a little sandpaper and a lot of finesse. Did you know that 3D scanning is (sort of) over a century old? Or that the first real microcomputer dates all...
Ep 187: The Sound of Gleeful Gerbils, The Song of the Hard Drive, and a Lipstick Pickup Lullaby
September 30, 2022 15:30 - 46 minutes - 54.8 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos gushed about NASA's live obliteration of minor planet Dimorphos using a probe outfitted with a camera. Spoiler alert: the probe reaches its rock-dappled rocky target just fine, and the final transmitted image has a decidedly human tinge. Kristina brought the mystery sound again this week, much to Elliot's sonic delight. Did he get it? Did he figure it out? Well, maybe. The important thing is one of you is boun...
Ep 186: Weighing Cats, Slamming VU Meters, Slimmer Skimmers, and Clean Air on the Cheap
September 23, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBHackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams took time out from Supercon planning to join Staff Writer Dan Maloney for a look through the hacking week that was. We always try to keep things light, but it's hard sometimes, especially when we have to talk about wars past and present and the ordnance they leave behind. It's also not a lot of fun to talk about a continent-wide radio outage thanks to our angry Sun, nor is learning that a wafer-thin card skimmer could be lurking in your ATM machine. B...
Ep 185: A 2022 Rotary Phone, How AI Imagines Zepplin, Are We Alone in the Universe
September 16, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi start off by talking about the chip shortage...but not how you think. With a list that supposedly breaks down all of the electronic components that the Russian military are desperate to get their hands on, we can see hackers aren't the only ones scrounging for parts. If you thought getting components was tricky already, imagine if most of the world decided to put sanctions on you. We'll also talk about kid-friendly DI...
Ep 184: What is Art, Bulk Tape Eraser Go Brr, and the Death of Email
September 09, 2022 15:30 - 59 minutes - 69.7 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos had a lot of fun discussing the best of the previous week's hacks in spite of Elliot's microphone connectivity troubles. News-wise, we busted out the wine and cheese to briefly debate whether a Colorado man should have won an art competition by entering an image created by AI. Afterward, we went around a bit about floppies, which are being outlawed in Japan. Then it's on to the What's That Sound Results Show, ...
Ep 183: Stowaway Science, Cold Basements, and Warm Beers
August 26, 2022 15:30 - 40 minutes - 46.2 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos met up on a secret server to discuss the cream of this week's crop of hacks. After gushing about the first-ever Kansas City Keyboard Meetup coming up tomorrow -- Saturday the 27th, we start off by considering the considerable engineering challenge of building a knife-throwing machine, the logistics of live-streaming on the go, and the thermodynamics of split-level homes. This week, Kristina came up with the Wh...
Ep 182: Sparkpunk Photography, Anti-Xiomi Air Filters, and Keyfob Foibles
August 19, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBEditor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi are here to bring you the best stories and hacks from the previous week (and maybe a little older). Things kick off with news that the Early Bird tickets for the 2022 Hackaday Supercon tickets sold out in only two hours -- a good sign that the community is just as excited as we are about the November event. But don't worry, regular admission tickets are now available for those who couldn't grab one out of the first batch. This w...
Ep 181: 3D Printing with Volcano Nuts, The Hackaday Bookshelf, and a Puzzlebot
August 12, 2022 15:30 - 51 minutes - 59.3 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos convened in a secret location to say what we will about the choicest hacks of the past week. We kick things off by discussing the brand new Cyberdeck contest, which is the first of it's type, but certainly won't be the last. In other contest news, we recently announced the winners of the Hack it Back Challenge of the Hackaday Prize, which ran the gamut from bodysnatching builds to rad resto-mods and resto-recrea...
Ep 180: Tiny CRTs, Springy PCBs, and Measuring Trees
August 05, 2022 15:30 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos traded sweat for silence, recording from their respective attic-level offices in the August heat unaided by fans (too noisy). We decided there's no real news this week that lacks a political bent, except maybe that Winamp is back with a new version that's four years in the making. (Is Winamp divisive?) Does it still whip the llama's ass? You be the judge. After Elliot gives Kristina a brief math lesson in incr...
Ep 179: Danger Chess, Corona Motors, an Omni-Walker, and a Fast Talking Telescope
July 29, 2022 16:21 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBJoin Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for their take on the hottest hacks in a hot, hot week. We found a bunch of unusual mechanisms this week, like an omnidirectional robot that's not quite wheeled but not quite a walker either. Or, if you'd rather fly, there's a UAV that's basically a flying propeller. There's danger afoot too, with news of a chess-playing robot with a nasty streak, a laser engraver that'll probably blind you, and a high-voltage corona ...
Ep 178: The Return of Supercon, Victory for Open Source, Exquisite Timepieces, and Documentation to Die For
July 22, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBHackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi start this week's podcast off with an announcement the community has been waiting years for: the return of the Hackaday Supercon! While there's still some logistical details to hammer out, we're all extremely excited to return to a live con and can't wait to share more as we get closer to November. Of course you can't have Supercon without the Hackaday Prize, which just so happens to be wrapping up its Hack it Back challe...
Ep 177: Microscopes, Telescopes, Telephonoscopes, and a Keyboardoscope?
July 15, 2022 15:30 - 46 minutes - 54.1 MBThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos stood around talking like they weren't thousands of miles apart. And we mean that literally: Kristina just got an up/down desk, and it turns out that Elliot's had the exact same one for years. In between the hammerings on Kristina's house (she's getting new siding), we kick things off by drooling over the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and compare a few of them to the same shots from Hubble....
Ep 176: Freezing Warm Water, Hacking Lenses, Hearing Data, and Watching YouTube on a PET
July 08, 2022 16:01 - 1 hour - 67 MBIt's podcast time again, and this week Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams sat down with Staff Writer Dan Maloney to review the best hacks on the planet, and a few from off. We'll find out how best to capture lightning, debate the merits of freezing water -- or ice cream -- when it's warm, and see if we can find out what R2D2 was really talking about with all those bleeps and bloops. Once we decode that, it'll be time to find out what Tom Nardi was up to while the boss was away with his hidden m...
Ep 175: Moonrocks and Cockroach Chyme, A Raspberry Pi iPad, and a Retro-Respectful Tape Deck
July 01, 2022 15:30 - 49 minutes - 56.4 MBJoin Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos as we cuss and discuss all the gnarliest hacks from the past week. We kick off this episode with a gentle reminder that the Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals Contest ends this Monday, July 4th, at 8:30 AM PDT. We've seen a ton of cool entries so far, including a new version of [Peter Lyons]' Squeezebox keyboard that we're itching to write up for the blog. In other contest news, the Round 2 winners of the Reuse, R...
Ep 174: Breaking into the Nest, The Cheapest 3D Printer, A Spy in Your HDMI, and AI All Over the Place
June 24, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBFresh from vacation, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams makes his triumphant return to the Hackaday Podcast! He's joined this week by Managing Editor Tom Nardi, who's just happy he didn't have to do the whole thing by himself again. In this episode we'll talk about tackling BGA components in your custom PCBs, a particularly well executed hack against Google's Nest Hub, and why you probably don't really want the world's cheapest 3D printer. We'll also take a look at an incredible project to turn...
Ep 173: EMF Camp Special Edition
June 17, 2022 15:30 - 42 minutes - 41.4 MBWith Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams enjoying some time off, Managing Editor Tom Nardi is flying solo for this special edition of the Hackaday Podcast. Thanks to our roving reporter Jenny List, we'll be treated to several interviews conducted live from EMF Camp -- a European outdoor hacker camp the likes of which those of us in the United States can only dream of. After this special segment, Hackaday contributors Al Williams and Ryan Flowers will stop by to talk about their favorite storie...
Ep 172: Frickin' Laser Beams, Squishy Stomp Switches, and a Tiny but Powerful DIY Loom
June 10, 2022 15:30 - 41 minutes - 48.4 MBJoin Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos for a free-as-in-beer showcase of the week's most gnarly but palatable hacks. But first, a reminder! Round 2 of the 2022 Hackaday Prize comes to an end in the early hours of Sunday, June 12th, so there's still enough time to put a project together and get it entered. This week, we discuss the utility of those squishy foam balls in projects and issue the PSA that it is in fact pool noodle season, so go get '...
Ep 171: Rent the Apple Toolkit, DIY an Industrial CNC, or Save the Birds with 3D Printing
June 03, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBJoin Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for a tour of the week's best and brightest hacks. We begin with a call for point-of-sale diversity, because who wants to carry cash? We move on to discussing glass as a building material, which isn't really easy, but at least it can be sintered with a DIY-grade laser. Want to make a call on a pay phone in New York City? Too late -- the last one is gone, and we offer a qualified "good riddance." We look at socially en...
Ep 170: Poop Shooting Laser, Positron is a 3D Printer On Its Head, DIY Pulsar Capture, GPS's Achilles Heel
May 27, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBJoin Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi for a recap of all the best tips, hacks, and stories of the past week. We start things off with an update on Hackaday's current slate of contests, followed by an exploration of the cutting edge in 3D printing and printables. Next up we'll look at two achievements in detection, as commercial off-the-shelf hardware is pushed into service by unusually dedicated hackers to identify both dog poop and deep space pulsars (b...