Hackaday Podcast
Episodes
Ep 176: Freezing Warm Water, Hacking Lenses, Hearing Data, and Watching YouTube on a PET
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It'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, ...
Ep 175: Moonrocks and Cockroach Chyme, A Raspberry Pi iPad, and a Retro-Respectful Tape Deck
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join 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 ...
Ep 174: Breaking into the Nest, The Cheapest 3D Printer, A Spy in Your HDMI, and AI All Over the Place
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from vacation, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams makes his triumphant return to the Hackaday Podcast! He's joined this week by Managing Editor Tom...
Ep 173: EMF Camp Special Edition
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams enjoying some time off, Managing Editor Tom Nardi is flying solo for this special edition of the Hackaday Podcast...
Ep 172: Frickin' Laser Beams, Squishy Stomp Switches, and a Tiny but Powerful DIY Loom
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join 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 palat...
Ep 171: Rent the Apple Toolkit, DIY an Industrial CNC, or Save the Birds with 3D Printing
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join 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...
Ep 170: Poop Shooting Laser, Positron is a 3D Printer On Its Head, DIY Pulsar Capture, GPS's Achilles Heel
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join 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 ...
Ep 169: 3D Print Vase Mode: Engage, Measuring Nanovolts through Mega DIY, and The Softest Pants are Software Pants
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos as we take a tour of our top hacks from the past week. Elliot brou...
Ep 168: Math Flattens Spheres, FPGAs Emulate Arcades, and We Can't Shake Polaroid Pictures
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they review the top hacks for the week. It was a real retro-fest this ti...
Ep 167: Deadly Art Projects, Robot Lock Pickers, LED Horticulture, and Good Samaritan Repairs
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi for a review of all the tech that's fit to print. Things kick off with an ...
Ep 166: Engraving with the Sun, Explosive Welding, Juggling Chainsaws, and Torturing Wago Connectors
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they dive into the last week of Hackaday articles. If you love things th...
Ep 165: Old Printers, Dark Towers, 3DP Gaskets, and Wavy Traces
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos as we gab about the most interesting hacks and stories of the prev...
Ep 164: Vintage NASA Soldering, Mouse Bites, ATTiny85 Graphics, and PVC Pontoons
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they review the most interesting hacks and stories of the previous week...
Ep 163: Movie Sound, Defeating Dymo DRM, 3DP Guitar Neck, Biometrics Bereft of Big Brother
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos as we spend an hour or so dissecting some of the more righteous ha...
Ep 162: Hackaday Prize is On, Thermal Printers are So Hot These Days, Cloud Chambers are Super Cool, and Batteries Must be Replaceable
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi for your weekly review of the best projects, hacks, and bits of news that ...
Ep 161: Laser Lithography, Centurion Hard Drive, and Mad BGA Soldering
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for an audio tour of the week's top stories and best hacks. We'll look at s...
Ep 160: Pedal Power, OpenSCAD in the Browser, Tasmanian Tigers, and the Coolest Knob
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they tackle all the hacks that were fit to print this last week. Things...
Ep 159: Zombie Killer or Rug Maker, 3D Printed Rims, 1950s Drum Machines, and Batteries on Wheels
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they look back on the best hacks and stories of the previous week. Ther...
Ep 158: Phased Array Physics, CRTs Two Ways, A Micro Microcontroller, and a Surgically Implanted Red Herring
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they take a look at the week's top stories, taken straight off the pages of Hacka...
Ep 157: Airtag Security, Warped 3D Printing, Suturing Grapes with a DIY Robot Arm, and the Wizard's Calculator
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi look at the week's most interesting stories and projects, starting wi...
Ep 156: 3D-Printing Rainbows, Split-Flap Clocks, Swapping EV Car Batteries, and Floppy Time
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos fawn over a beautiful Italian split-flap clock that doesn't ...
Ep 155: Dual Integrating Spheres, More Magnetic Switches, PlottyBot, Red Hair in Your Wafers
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi take a close look at two pairs of projects that demonstrate the wildl...
Ep 154: A Good Enough CNC, Stepper Motors Unrolled, Smart Two-Wire LEDs, a Volcano Heard Around the World
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for this week's podcast as we talk about Elliot's "defection" to another po...
Ep 153:A 555 Teardown to Die For, Tetrabyte is Not a Typo, DIY Injection Molding, and Using All the Parts of the Trash Printer
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi on another whirlwind tour of the week's top stories, hacks, and projects. ...
Ep 152: 555 Timer Extravaganza, EMF Chip Glitching 3 Ways, a Magnetic Mechanical Keyboard, and The Best Tricorder Ever
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they bring you up to speed on the best stories and projects from the we...
Ep 151: The Hackiest VR Glove, Plotting Boba Fett with Shoelaces, ECU Hacking, and Where Does Ammonia Come From?
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi are back again to talk about all the weird and wonderful stores from our corner...
Ep 150: Blackberry Runs Out of Juice, NODE has your pinouts, Rats learn DOOM, and 2021 is Done
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they ring in the New Year with the first podcast episode of 2022. We ge...
Happy New Year!
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hackaday Podcast is in its second, and final, week of winter hibernation. So join me and special guest Tom Nardi in the first week of 2022 as we d...
No Podcast This Week, But What's That Sound!
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Podcast is in Holiday Mode this week, so keep on hacking (and reading Hackaday!) until we catch up again in 2022.
Ep 149: Ballerina Bot Balances, Flexures Track Cat Food, PCB Goes Under the Knife, and an ATtiny Does the 555
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Newly ordained Hackaday editor-in-chief Elliot Williams and staff writer Dan Maloney jump behind the podcast mic to catch you up on all this week's es...
Ep 148: Pokemon Trades, Anniversary iPod Prototype, Stupid Satellite Tricks, and LED Strip Sensors
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys get caught up on the week that was. People go to great lengths for video game saves, but this Pokemon...
Ep 147: Animating Traces, Sucking and Climbing, Spinning Sails, and Squashing Images
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the week that was. You probably know a ton of people who have a solar array at their...
Ep 146: Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Postpone your holiday shopping and spend some quality time with editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams as they sift through the week in Hackaday. Whi...
Ep 145: Remoticon is On, Movie FX, Cold Plasma, and The Purest Silicon
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With literally just hours to go before the 2021 Hackaday Remoticon kicks off, editors Tom Nardi and Elliot Williams still managed to find time to talk...
Ep 144: Jigs Jigs Jigs, Faberge Mic, Paranomal Electronics, and a 60-Tube Nixie Clock
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys get caught up on the week that was. Two builds are turning some heads this week; one uses 60 Nixie tu...
Ep 143: More Magnesium Please, Robot Bicep Curls, Malamud's General Index, and Are You Down with EMC?
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams catch up on a week's worth of hacks. Get a grip on robot hands: there's an eerily human one on offer ...
Ep 142: 65 Days of Airtime, Racecars Staring at the Ceiling, a Pushy White Cane, and Soapy Water Rockets
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys flap their gums about all the great hacks of the week. Something as simple as a wheel can be totally ...
Ep 141: LowFER Badges, Outrun Clocks, Dichroic Lamps, and Piano Action
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike and Elliot Williams catch up on a week's worth of hacks. It turns out there are several strange radio bands that don't require a...
Ep140: Aqua Battery, IBM Cheese Cutter, Waiting for USB-C, and Digging ADCs
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys chew the fat over the coolest of hacks. It's hard to beat two fascinating old-tech demonstraters; one...
Ep 139: Furter Burner, Glowing Potato Peeler, Hacked Smartwatch, and The Last Atlas
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Tom Nardi and Elliot Williams bring you up to speed on the most interesting stories of the week. Hackaday's Remoticon and Germany's C...
Ep 138: Breakin' Bluetooth, Doritos Rockets, Wireless Robots, and Autonomous Trolling
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys peruse the great hardware hacks of the past week. There's a robot walker platform that wirelessly off...
Ep 137: Maximum Power Point, Electric Car Hacking, Commodore Drive Confidential, and Tesla Handles
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams marvel at a week packed full of great hardware hacks. Do you think the engineers who built the earlie...
Ep 136:Smacking Asteroids, Decoding Voyager, Milling Cheap, and PS5 Triggered
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look back on a great week of hardware hacking. What a time to be alive when you can use open source t...
Ep 135: Three Rocket Hacks, All the Game Boy Gates, and Depth Sounding from a Rowboat
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Tom Nardi go over the best stories and hacks from the previous week, covering everything from sidestepping rockets to...
Ep 134: Hackers Camping, Metal Detecting, 360o Hearing, and Pocket Computing
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys are joined by contributing editor Jenny List to talk about her adventure at Born Hack last week. We a...
Ep 133: Caustic Lenses, Not Ice-Cream Automation, Archery Mech Suit, and the Cheapest Robot Arm
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams wade into a week of wonderful hacks. There's an acrylic lens that hides images in the network of caus...
Ep 132: Laser Disco Ball, Moore's Law in Your Garage, Cheap Cyborg Glasses, and a Mouse That Detects Elephants
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys debate the great mysteries of the hacking universe. On tap this week is news that Sam Zeloof has refi...
Ep 131: Have a Heart, Transputer Pi, Just the Wing, and a Flipped Cable Fries Radio
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams recount the past week in hardware hacking. There's a new Tamagochi hack that runs the original ROM on...
Ep 130: Upside Down 3D-Printer, Biplane Quadcopter, Gutting a Calculator Watch, and GitHub CoPilot
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys get charged up on the best hacks the week had to offer. The 3D printer design gods were good to us, d...
Ep 129: Super Clever 3D Printing, Jigs and Registration Things, 90s Car Audio, and Smooth LED Fades
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams have found a critical mass of projects this week that wouldn't be possible without 3D printers. There...
Ep 128: 3D-Printing Injection Molds, Squiggly Audio Tape, Curvy Mirrors, and Space Cadets
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys bubble sort the best hardware hacks so you don't miss 'em. This week we're smitten by the perfection ...
Ep 127: Whippletree Clamps, Sniffing Your Stomach Radio, Multimeter Hum Fix, and C64 Demo; No C64
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams help you get caught up on a week of wonder hacks. We don't remember seeing a floppy drive headline th...
Ep 126: Cable 3D-Scanner, Tesla Charger Robot, Ultrasonic Anemometer, and a Zoetrope
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys dive into a week of exceptional hacks. Tip-top of the list has to be the precision measuring instrume...
Ep 125: Linux Users Talking Windows 11, Pop Bottle Filament, Old Phones with Modern Guts, and Eavesdropping in RF
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams look through the most interesting hacks of the week. We spent ample time in adulation of the automato...
Ep 124: Hard Drivin' with Graphene, Fooled by Lasers, Etching with Poison Acid, and All The Linux Commands
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys marvel at the dangerous projects on display this week, including glass etching with hydrofluoric acid...
Ep 123: Radioactive Rhinos, Wile-E-Coyote Jetpack, Radio Hacks 3-Ways, and Battery Welders on the Spot
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editor in Chief Mike Szczys is taking a bit of vacation this week, so Managing Editor Elliot Williams is joined by Staff Writer Dan Maloney t...
Ep 122: Faster Than Wind Travel, Sisyphish, ALU Desktop Calculator, and Mice in Space
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys marvel at the awesome hacks from the past week. We had way too much fun debated whether a wind-powere...
Ep 121: Crazy Bikes, DIY Flip Dots, EV Mountain Climbing, and Trippy Tripterons
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss a great week of hardware hacks. Two delightful mechanical hacks focus on bicycles: one that p...
Ep 120: Chip Shortage, VGA Glitching, Truly Owning Roku, and Omniballs
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recount a week of awesome hacks. One you might have missed involves a Roku-based smart TV that was ro...
Ep 119: Random Robot Writing, Slithering Snake Shenanigans, and Phased Array Phenomena
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams pick up on the neatest hacks you may have missed. We start off with another "What's that Sound?" so p...
Ep 118: Apple AirTag Hacked, Infill Without Perimeters, Hair-Pulling Robots, and Unpacking the 555
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys gather to ooh and aah over a week of interesting hacks. This week we're delighted to welcome special ...
Ep 117: Chiptunes in an RCA Plug, an Arduino Floppy Drive, $50 CNC, and Wireless Switches
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the latest hacks from around the Internet. 3D-Printed linear rails don't sound like a recipe ...
Ep116: Three DIY Lab Instruments, Two Tickers, and a MicroCar
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys select our favorite hardware hacks of the past week. This episode is packed with DIY lab instruments,...
Ep115: AI is Bad at Linux Terminal, Puppeting Pico in Python, 3D Scanning Comes Up Short
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams pull back the curtain on a week of excellent hacks. We saw an awesome use of RGB LEDs as a data chann...
Ep114: Eye is Watching You, Alien Art, CNC Chainsaw, and the Galvie Flu
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys marvel at the hacks that surfaced over the past week. An eye-popping webcam hack comes in the form of...
Ep113: Python Switching to Match, a Magnetic Dyno, a Flying Dino, and a Spinning Sequencer
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams recap a week of great hacks. You won't want to miss the dynamometer Leo Fernekes built to measure the...
Ep 112: We Have an NFT, Racing a Mobius Strip, and Syncing Video with OpenCV and Blender
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys celebrate the cleverest projects from the week that was. We tried to catch a few fools on Thursday wi...
Ep111: 3D Graphics are Ultrasonic, Lobotomizing Alexa, 3D-Printing Leaky Rockets, and Gaming the Font System
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams curate a week of great hacks. Physical displays created in 3D space are a holy grail, and you can mak...
Ep110: One Unicode to Rule Them, Hacking Focus Stacking, Virtual Typing, and Zombie Weather Channel
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys cover a great week of hardware hacking. We saw a fault-injection attack that used an electric flyswat...
Ep109: Cars that Suck, a Synth Packed with 555s, X-ray Letter Reading, and Pecking at a PS/2 Keyboard
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams riff on the week's most interesting hacks. It's hard to imagine a more perfect piece of art than an o...
Ep108: Eulogizing Daft Punk Helmets, Bitcoin Feeling the Heat, Squeezing Soft Robots, and Motorizing Ice Skates
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys travel through the greatest hacks the week had on offer. Charge up your ice skates (literally) by add...
Ep107: FTDI Plays Music, LED Dimming Ain't Easy, Measuring Poop Calories, and Sketchy Laser Cutters
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams gab about all of the geeky things. We had a delightful time watching NASA bring Perseverance down to ...
Ep106: Connector Kerfuffle, Tuning Fork Time, Spinach Contact Prints, and Tesla's Permanent Memory
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recount the coolest hacks from the past week. Most clocks keep time with a quartz crystal, but we dis...
Ep 105: 486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We're Headed to Mars
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams unpack great hacks of the past week. We loves seeing the TIL311 -- a retro display in a DIP package -...
Ep104: Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ni...
Ep103: Antennas for Everyone, a Clock Made of Chains, Magic Eye Tubes, and a Little Google Bashing
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the greatest hacks of the week that was. Antennas aren't rocket science, so this week we re...
Ep102: Raspberry Pi Microcontroller, Microphone Killswitch, and a 45-Degree 3D-Printer
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys sift through a week of excellent hacks. Big news is of course the Raspberry Pi microcontroller which ...
Ep101: Lasering and Milling Absolutely Everything
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss our favorite hacks of the past week. We accidentally chose a theme, as most of the projects u...
Ep100: Arduino Plays CDs, Virtual Reality in the 60s, and Magical Linear Actuators
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys kick off the first episode of the new year with the best hacks the internet has to offer. There's a d...
Ep099: Our Hundredth Episode! Denture Synth, OLED Keycaps, and SNES Raytracing
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams celebrate the 100th episode! It's been a pleasure to marvel each week at the achievements of awesome ...
Ep098: China's Moon Rocks, Antikythera Revelations, Creality vs Octoprint, and RC Starship
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi contemplate a few of the most interesting stories that made their way through the tubes this week. We'l...
Ep097: We ♥ MicroMice, the Case of the Missing Drones, and 3D Prints Tested for Rocketry and Food Prep
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams round up the latest hardware hacks. This week we check out the latest dead-simple automation -- a wir...
Ep096: Diaphragm Engine, DIY Dish Washer, Forgotten Soviet Computers, and a Starlink Teardown
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys discuss the latest and greatest in geeky goodness. This week we saw a Soviet time capsule come to lig...
Ep095: Booting FreeDOS from a Vinyl Record, Floating on Mushrooms, and Tunneling Through a Living Room
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this short Thanksgiving episode, Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams are talking turkey about the world of hardware hacking. We've sti...
Ep094: Fake Sun, Hacked Super Mario, Minimum Viable Smart Glasses, and 3D Printers Can't Do That
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys traverse the hackerscape looking for the best the internet had to offer last week. Nintendo has relea...
Ep093: Hot and Fast Raspberry Pi, Dr. Seuss Drone, M&M Mass Meter, and FPGA Tape Backup
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams wrangle the epic hacks that crossed our screens this week. Elliot ran deep on overclocking all three ...
Ep092: Orbital Data by Mail, Human Flight on Styrofoam Wings, and Seven Shades of E-Ink
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys catch the best hacks you may have missed. This week we look at the new Raspberry Pi 400, use computer...
Ep091: Louisville Exploder, Generating Japanese Joinery, Relay Retrocomputer Rally, and Chop the Robopup
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams dig through the greatest hacks that ought not be missed this week. There's a wild one that flexes eng...
Ep090: DIY Linux SBC, HDMI CEC, Fake Bluepills, and SCARA Arms
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys chat about our favorite hacks from the past week. We start off with a bit of news of the Bennu astero...
Ep089: 770 Potato Battery, Printing Resin Resist, and No-Internet Video Chat
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams weigh the hacking gold found across the internet this week. We can't get over the epic adventure that...
Ep088: Flywheel Trebuchet, Thieving Magpies, Hero Engines, and Hypermiling
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys riff on the hardware hacks that took the Internet by storm this week. Machining siege weapons out of ...
Ep087: Sound-Shattering Gliders Pressing Dashcam Buttons, and Ratcheting Up Time
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams dish up a hot slice of the week's hardware hacks. We feature a lot of clocks on Hackaday, but few can...
Ep086: News Overflow, Formula 1/3 Racer, Stand Up Rubber Duckies, and Useless Machine Takes a Turn
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams take Mike Szczys peruse the world of hacks. There was so much news this week that we lead off the show with a rundown...
Ep085: Cable Robots Two-Ways, Cubic Raspberry Pi, Plastic Wrap Kayak, and Digging Inductors
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams take a look at all the hacks from the week that was. We think we've found the perfect tentacle robot,...
Ep084: Awful Floppy Disk Music, Robot Climbs Walls, An Undersea Lab, Inside a Digital Pregnancy Test
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With Editor in Chief Mike Szczys off this week, Managing Editor Elliot Williams is joined by Staff Writer Dan Maloney to look over the hacks from the ...
Ep083: Soooo Many Custom Peripherals, Leaving Bluetooth Footprints, and a Twirlybird on Mars
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 int...
Ep082: DJ CNC, NFC Black Box, Sound of Keys, and Payin' for 3D Prints
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys check in on the best hacks from the past week. All the buzz is the algorithm that can reverse enginee...
Ep081: Mask-apult, Beef Tallow, Grinding Melted Plastic, and Stretching Flowing Metal
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Tom Nardi chew the beef tallow as they take a tour through some of the best and most interesting articles from the pa...
Ep080: Trucks On a Wire, Seeing Sounds, Flightless Drone, and TEA Laser Strike
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys flip through the index of great hacks. This week we learn of a co-existence attack on WiFi and Blueto...
Ep079: Wobble Sphere, Pixelflut, Skeeter Traps, and Tracing Apps
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams gaze upon the most eye-popping projects from the past week. Who would have known that springy doorsto...