Hackaday Podcast
Episodes
Ep060: Counting Bees, DogBox Transmissions, and the Lowdown on Vents, BiPAP, and PCR
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recount the past week in hardware hacking. There's a new king of supercomputing and it's everyone! Ha...
Ep059: Hydraulic Rockets & Presses, Machine Vision Bounces & Stares, Smart Speakers Listen to You
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams undertake a journey through the week of fantastic hacks. Add a new level of complexity to model rocke...
Ep058: Motorheads, 3D Prints that Bend Metal, and Homebuilt Onewheel Death Machines
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editor Elliot Williams and contributor Jonathan Bennett discuss the past week of Hackaday. Freeman Dyson, who wanted to send us to space on t...
Ep057: Dismantled LCD Panels, Unexpected Dynamometer, a Flappy POV, and Dastardly Encryption
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams are onto an LCD and motors kick this week. Two different LCD screen teardowns caught our eye as one l...
Ep056: Cat of 9 Heads, Robot Squats, PhD in ESP32, and Did You Hear About Sonos?
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys gab on great hacks of the past week. Did you hear that there's a new rev of the Pi 4 out there? We ju...
Ep055: Most Cyberpunk Synthesizer, Data in Your Cells, Bubbly in Your Printer, & Dystopian Peepshow
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the many great hacks of the past week. Just in case you missed the fact that we're living in ...
Ep054: Xenomorph Cookies, 101 Uses for Hot Glue, Rolling Robots, and a Clippy Computer
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys reflect on great hacks of the past few days. Strain relief is something every electronics geek encoun...
Ep053: 1-Bit Computer a Family Affair, Display is Actually Fabulous, and Hoverboard is a Drill Press
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams navigate the crowded streets of the hackersphere for the most interesting hardware projects seen in t...
Ep052: Shorting Components, Printing Typewriter Balls, Taking Time Lapse, and Makerspace Movie Prop
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recap a great week in hardware hacking. There's perfection in the air as clever 3D-printing turns a b...
Ep051: Pointing With Your Tongue, C64 Touchpad, USB Killcord, and Audacity Does Everything
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams sort through the hacks you might have missed over the past seven days. In FPGA hacking news, there's ...
Ep050: Counterfeit Chips, Servo Kalimba, Resistor Colors, Pi Emulation, and SED Maze Solver
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys work their way through a dizzying maze of great hacks this week, bringing you along for the ride. We ...
Ep049: Tiny Machine Learning, Basement Battery Bonanza, and Does This Uranium Feel Hot?
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams sort through all of the hacks to find the most interesting hardware projects you may have missed this...
Ep048: Truly Trustworthy Hardware, Glowing Uranium Marbles, Bitstreaming the USB, Chaos of Congress
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot WIlliams and Mike Szczys kick off the first podcast of the new year. Elliot just got home from Chaos Communications Congress (...
Ep047: Prusa Controversy, Bottle Organ Breakdown, PCBs Bending Backwards, and Listen to Your LED
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot get to gether for the 47th and final Hackaday Podcast of 2019. We dive into the removable appendix on Prusa's ...
Ep046: Bring Us Your Nonsense, Hack NES Clones, Grasping FPGAs, Music Hacks, & Fish Tank of Random
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys highlight the most delightful hacks of the past week. Need a random-number showpiece for your office?...
Ep045: Raspberry Pi Bug, Rapidly Aging Vodka, Raining on the Cloud, & This Wasn't a Supercon Episode
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams talk over the last three weeks full of hacks. Our first "back to normal" podcast after Supercon turns...
Ep044: Special Supercon Edition
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Superconference edition of the podcast, Kerry Scharfglass and Elliot Williams pick up their microphones and try to capture the spirit ...
Ep043: Ploopy, Castlevania Cube-Scroller, Projection Map Your Face, and Smoosh Those 3D Prints
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Before you even ask, it's an open source trackball and you're gonna like it. Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get down to brass tacks ...
Ep042: Capacitive Earthquakes, GRBL on ESP32, Solenoid Engines, and the TI-99 Space Program
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys talk turkey on the latest hacks. Random numbers, art, and electronic geekery combine into an entropic...
Ep041: The "How Not To" Episode of Rebreathers, Chain Sprockets, Hovercraft, and Data Logging
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams shed some light on a true week of hacks. It seems like all kinds of projects are doing this the "wron...
Ep040: 3D Printed Everything, Strength v Toughness, Blades of Fiber, and What Can't Coffee Do?
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams opine on the coolest hacks we saw this week. This episode is heavy with 3D printing as Prusa released...
Ep039: Elliot <3 Lightning Detector, Ikea Dark Mode, Smartest Watch, Solar Sailing, VAWT Controversy
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recap a week full of hacks from the solar sailing RC plane that has zero power storage to geeking out...
Ep038: Cyberdecks, Resin 3D-Printing vs FDM, Silicone Injection Molding, the Pickle Fork Fiasco
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Tom Nardi and Mike Szczys comb through their favorite hacks from the past week. We loved Donald Papp's article on considerations befo...
Ep037: 2 Flavors of Robot Dog, Fitness Tracker Hacks, Clocks Wind Themselves, Helicopter Chainsaws
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams take a look at the latest hacks from the past week. We keep seeing awesome stuff and find ourselves w...
Ep036: Camera Rig Makes CNC Jealous, Become Your Own Time Transmitter, Pi HiFi 80s Vibe, DJ Xiaomi
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys work their way through a fantastic week of hacks. From a rideable tank tread to spoofing radio time s...
Ep035: LED Cubes Taking Over, Ada Vanquishes C Bugs, Rad Monitoring is Hot, 3D Printing Goes Full 3D
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the most interesting hacks of the past week. On this episode we take a deep dive int...
Ep034: 15 Years of Hackaday, ESP Hacked, Hydrogen Sipping Cars, Giant Drawbot, Really Remote RC Cars
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys wish Hackaday a happy fifteenth birthday! We also jump into a few vulns found (and fixed... ish) in the WiFi stack of ...
Ep033: Decompressing from Camp, Nuclear Stirling Engines, Carphone or Phonecar, and ArduMower
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams recorded this week's podcast live from Chaos Communication Camp, discussing the most interesting hack...
Ep032: Meteorite Snow Globes, Radioactive Ramjet Rockets, Autonomous Water Boxes, and Ball Reversers
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams recorded this week's podcast live from Chaos Communication Camp, discussing the most interesting hack...
Ep 031: Holonomic Drives, Badges of DEF CON, We Don't Do On-Chip Debugging, and Manufacturing Snafus
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Szczys and Kerry Scharfglass recorded this week's podcast live from DEF CON. Among the many topics of discussion, we explore some of the more int...
Ep030: 7 Years of RTL-SDR, 3D Prints Optimized for the Eye, Sega Audiophile, Swimming in Brighteners
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams curate the awesome hacks from the past week. On this episode, we marvel about the legacy RTL-SDR has ...
Ep029: Your Face in Silver Sand, Tires of the Future, ESP32 all the CNC Things, and Sub in a Jug
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys geek out over the latest hacks. This week we saw a couple of clever CNC builds that leverage a great ...
Ep028: Brain Skepticism Turned Up to 11, Web Browsing in '69, Verilog For 7400 Logic
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams cover the most interesting hacks over the past week. So much talk of putting computers in touch with ...
Ep027: Confusingly USB-C, Glowey Displays, Logically VGA, Hackers that Changed Gaming
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys dive into the most interesting hacks of the week. Confused by USB-C? So are we, and so is the Raspber...
Ep026: Tamper-Proof Electronics, Selfie Drones, Rocket Fuel, Wire Benders, Wizard-Level Soldering
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams are back after last week's holiday break to track down all of the hacks you missed. There are some do...
Ep025: Of Cheese Graters, Fauxberries, Printed Gears, Power Latching, and Art-Loving AI
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams dish their favorite hacks from the past week. Seems like everyone is trying to mill their own Mac Pro...
Ep024: Mashing Smartphone Buttons, Sound Blastering, Trash Printing, and a Ludicrous Loom
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys wade through the fun hacks of the week. Looks like Google got caught ripping off song lyrics (how the...
Ep023: Everything Breaks... Raspberry Pi, ADS-B, Hackaday Website, and Automotive Airbags
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams talk news and great hacks from the past seven days. Sad word this week as Maker Media, the company behind Make Magazin...
Ep022: King of Power Banks, Great SDR Hacks, Sand Reflow, and Rat Rod Mower
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys dig through the most interesting hacks from the past week. On this episode we take a look at a portable power bank bui...
Ep021: Chasing Rockets, Tripping on Synthesizers, an IoT Security Fail, and Alzheimer's Detection
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Szcycz is on a well-deserved vacation this week, so staff writer Dan Maloney joins managing editor Elliot Williams for a look at all the great ha...
Ep020: Slaying the Dragon of EL, Siege Weapon Physics, Dis-entangled Charlieplex, Laser Internet
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys as they unpack all the great hacks we've seen this week. On this episode we're talking about laser Intern...
Ep019: Extreme Clock Accuracy, Mobius Gears and Planetary Stunts, Jamming All Fobs, Pi in Your Wii
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams as they riff on the coolest hacks from the past week. Clocks and 3D printing seem to keep coming up this week as ...
Ep018: Faxploitation! Ikea RFID Hacking, Space Ads, Hydrogen Dones, And Blinkies
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys gather round the microphone to spin tales from a week of hacks. All the rage are fax-machine-based ma...
Ep017: Are Cheap Microcontrollers Worth It? Android on Your Bike. Plus Food Printers and Coffee Bots
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams as they recount a week of fascinating hacks. We take a good look at the PMS150C, a microcontroller that l...
Ep016: 3D Printing with Steel, Molding with Expanded Foam, QUIP-Package Parts, and Aged Solder
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode looks at microfluidics using Shrinky Dinks, expanding foam to build airplane wings, the insidious effect of time on component solder poin...
EP015: Going Low Frequency, Robotic Machines, Disk Usage For Budgets, And Cellphones Versus Weather
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss the highlights of the great hacks from the past week. On this episode we discuss wireless cha...
EP014: Keeping Raspberry's SD Card Alive, We Love MRRF, and How Hot Are Flip Chips?
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys take a look at advances in photogrammetry (building 3D models out of many photographs from a regular camera), a delay ...
Ep013: Naked Components, Shocking Power Supplies, Eye-Popping Clock, And The Hackaday Prize
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams geek out about all things hackerdom. Did you catch all of our April Fools nods this week? Get the inside scoop...
Ep012: Nearly Perpetual Motion, Mars Rover Carries Kid, and Doc Brown's Cat Feeder
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys catch up on the past week in hackerdom. It seems as if we're in a golden age of machine building as an incredi...
Ep011: Weird Keyboards, Salvaging LCD Screens, and Mike Interviews Ivan of Espressif in Shanghai
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With our intrepid Editor in Chief Mike Szczys off being kind of a big deal in China, Managing Editor Elliot Williams is joined by Staff Writer Tom Nar...
Ep010: XKCD Graphs, Turing Complete Meta Computers, False Finger Printing 3D Printers, and Jargon
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys walk through the past week in hackerdom. There's a new jargon quiz! Do you know what astrictive robotic prehension mea...
Ep009: On the Edge of AI, Comment Your Code, Big Big Wheels, and Makers of Munich
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Catch up on the past week of hacks with Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys. "AI on the Edge" is the buzzword of choice lately, with hard...
Ep008: The Art Episode: Joe Kim, Strings And CRTs, Hydrogen Done 2-Ways
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We know you love the original art on Hackaday. Those fantastic illustrations are the work of Joe Kim, and he joins us as a guest on this week's episod...
Ep007: Everything Microcontrollers, Deadly Clock Accuracy, CT X-Rays, Mountains Of E-Waste
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look at all that's happening in hackerdom. This week we dive deep into super-accurate clock chips, SPI and microcontro...
Ep006: Reversing iPod Screens, Hot Isotopes, We <3 Parts, and Biometric Toiletseats
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's the buzz in the hackersphere this week? Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recap their favorite hacks and articles from the past ...
Ep005: Undead Lightbulbs, Home Chemistry, and the Strength of 3D Printing
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Catch up on interesting hacks from the past week with Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams. This week we discuss the story behind falling ...
Ep004: Taking the Blue Pill, Abusing Resistors, and Searching for Drones
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Catch up on your Hackaday with this week's podcast. Mike and Elliot riff on the "blue pill" (ST32F103 boards), blackest of black paints, hand-crafted ...
Ep003: Igloos, Lidar, and the Blinking LED of RF Hacking
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights include a dip into audio processing with sox and FFMPEG, scripting for Gmail, weaving your own carbon fiber tubes, staring into the void of...
Ep002: Curious Gadgets and the FPGA Brain Trust
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams talk about the Circuit Sculpture Contest and their favorite hacks of the week. Elliot interviews the ...
Ep001 - Seriously, We Know What We're Doing
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look back on the most interesting hacks and can't-miss articles from the past week (or so). Highlights include...
Hackaday 2018 Year in Review
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams discuss trends seen in 2018, and try to narrow down their favorite hacks and favorite articles from t...