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Hackaday Podcast

Hackaday 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.

EMF Camp Special Edition

42 mins; June 17, 2022

Frickin' Laser Beams, Squishy Stomp Switches, and a Tiny but Powerful DIY Loom

41 mins; June 10, 2022

Rent the Apple Toolkit, DIY an Industrial CNC, or Save the Birds with 3D Printing

75 hours 18 mins; June 03, 2022

Poop Shooting Laser, Positron is a 3D Printer On Its Head, DIY Pulsar Capture, GPS's Achilles Heel

74 hours 2 mins; May 27, 2022

3D Print Vase Mode: Engage, Measuring Nanovolts through Mega DIY, and The Softest Pants are Software Pants

49 mins; May 20, 2022

Math Flattens Spheres, FPGAs Emulate Arcades, and We Can't Shake Polaroid Pictures

53 mins; May 13, 2022

Deadly Art Projects, Robot Lock Pickers, LED Horticulture, and Good Samaritan Repairs

66 hours 11 mins; May 06, 2022

Engraving with the Sun, Explosive Welding, Juggling Chainsaws, and Torturing Wago Connectors

69 hours 5 mins; April 29, 2022

Old Printers, Dark Towers, 3DP Gaskets, and Wavy Traces

49 mins; April 22, 2022

Vintage NASA Soldering, Mouse Bites, ATTiny85 Graphics, and PVC Pontoons

63 hours 29 mins; April 15, 2022

Movie Sound, Defeating Dymo DRM, 3DP Guitar Neck, Biometrics Bereft of Big Brother

48 mins; April 08, 2022

Hackaday Prize is On, Thermal Printers are So Hot These Days, Cloud Chambers are Super Cool, and Batteries Must be Replaceable

66 hours 19 mins; April 01, 2022

Laser Lithography, Centurion Hard Drive, and Mad BGA Soldering

56 mins; March 25, 2022

Pedal Power, OpenSCAD in the Browser, Tasmanian Tigers, and the Coolest Knob

51 mins; March 18, 2022

Zombie Killer or Rug Maker, 3D Printed Rims, 1950s Drum Machines, and Batteries on Wheels

56 mins; March 11, 2022

Phased Array Physics, CRTs Two Ways, A Micro Microcontroller, and a Surgically Implanted Red Herring

50 mins; March 04, 2022

Airtag Security, Warped 3D Printing, Suturing Grapes with a DIY Robot Arm, and the Wizard's Calculator

53 mins; February 25, 2022

3D-Printing Rainbows, Split-Flap Clocks, Swapping EV Car Batteries, and Floppy Time

45 mins; February 18, 2022

Dual Integrating Spheres, More Magnetic Switches, PlottyBot, Red Hair in Your Wafers

63 hours 48 mins; February 11, 2022

A Good Enough CNC, Stepper Motors Unrolled, Smart Two-Wire LEDs, a Volcano Heard Around the World

55 mins; February 04, 2022

555 Teardown to Die For, Tetrabyte is Not a Typo, DIY Injection Molding, and Using All the Parts of the Trash Printer

55 mins; January 28, 2022

555 Timer Extravaganza, EMF Chip Glitching 3 Ways, a Magnetic Mechanical Keyboard, and The Best Tricorder Ever

59 mins; January 21, 2022

The Hackiest VR Glove, Plotting Boba Fett with Shoelaces, ECU Hacking, and Where Does Ammonia Come From?

61 hours 24 mins; January 14, 2022

Blackberry Runs Out of Juice, NODE has your pinouts, Rats learn DOOM, and 2021 is Done

62 hours 42 mins; January 07, 2022

Happy New Year!

1 min; December 31, 2021

No Podcast This Week, But What's That Sound!

3 mins; December 24, 2021

Ballerina Bot Balances, Flexures Track Cat Food, PCB Goes Under the Knife, and an ATtiny Does the 555

54 mins; December 17, 2021

Pokemon Trades, Anniversary iPod Prototype, Stupid Satellite Tricks, and LED Strip Sensors

55 mins; December 10, 2021

Animating Traces, Sucking and Climbing, Spinning Sails, and Squashing Images

56 mins; December 03, 2021

Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming

58 mins; November 26, 2021

Remoticon is On, Movie FX, Cold Plasma, and The Purest Silicon

50 mins; November 19, 2021

Jigs Jigs Jigs, Faberge Mic, Paranomal Electronics, and a 60-Tube Nixie Clock

51 mins; November 12, 2021

More Magnesium Please, Robot Bicep Curls, Malamud's General Index, and Are You Down with EMC?

52 mins; November 05, 2021

65 Days of Airtime, Racecars Staring at the Ceiling, a Pushy White Cane, and Soapy Water Rockets

54 mins; October 29, 2021

LowFER Badges, Outrun Clocks, Dichroic Lamps, and Piano Action

48 mins; October 22, 2021

Aqua Battery, IBM Cheese Cutter, Waiting for USB-C, and Digging ADCs

52 mins; October 15, 2021

Furter Burner, Glowing Potato Peeler, Hacked Smartwatch, and The Last Atlas

50 mins; October 08, 2021

Ep 138: Breakin' Bluetooth, Doritos Rockets, Wireless Robots, and Autonomous Trolling

50 mins; October 01, 2021

Maximum Power Point, Electric Car Hacking, Commodore Drive Confidential, and Tesla Handles

51 mins; September 24, 2021

Smacking Asteroids, Decoding Voyager, Milling Cheap, and PS5 Triggered

50 mins; September 17, 2021

Three Rocket Hacks, All the Game Boy Gates, and Depth Sounding from a Rowboat

54 mins; September 10, 2021

Hackers Camping, Metal Detecting, 360° Hearing, and Pocket Computing

50 mins; September 03, 2021

Caustic Lenses, Not Ice-Cream Automation, Archery Mech Suit, and the Cheapest Robot Arm

46 mins; August 27, 2021

Laser Disco Ball, Moore's Law in Your Garage, Cheap Cyborg Glasses, and a Mouse That Detects Elephants

50 mins; August 20, 2021

Have a Heart, Transputer Pi, Just the Wing, and a Flipped Cable Fries Radio

42 mins; August 13, 2021

Upside Down 3D-Printer, Biplane Quadcopter, Gutting a Calculator Watch, and GitHub CoPilot

51 mins; August 06, 2021

Super Clever 3D Printing, Jigs and Registration Things, 90s Car Audio, and Smooth LED Fades

50 mins; July 30, 2021

3D-Printing Injection Molds, Squiggly Audio Tape, Curvy Mirrors, and Space Cadets

44 mins; July 23, 2021

Whippletree Clamps, Sniffing Your Stomach Radio, Multimeter Hum Fix, and C64 Demo; No C64

53 mins; July 16, 2021

Cable 3D-Scanner, Tesla Charger Robot, Ultrasonic Anemometer, and a Zoetrope

48 mins; July 09, 2021

Linux Users Talking Windows 11, Pop Bottle Filament, Old Phones with Modern Guts, and Eavesdropping in RF

54 mins; July 02, 2021

Hard Drivin' with Graphene, Fooled by Lasers, Etching with Poison Acid, and All The Linux Commands

52 mins; June 25, 2021

Radioactive Rhinos, Wile-E-Coyote Jetpack, Radio Hacks 3-Ways, and Battery Welders on the Spot

50 mins; June 18, 2021

Faster Than Wind Travel, Sisyphish, ALU Desktop Calculator, and Mice in Space

53 mins; June 11, 2021

Crazy Bikes, DIY Flip Dots, EV Mountain Climbing, and Trippy Tripterons

48 mins; June 04, 2021

Chip Shortage, VGA Glitching, Truly Owning Roku, and Omniballs

50 mins; May 28, 2021

Random Robot Writing, Slithering Snake Shenanigans, and Phased Array Phenomena

50 mins; May 21, 2021

Apple AirTag Hacked, Infill Without Perimeters, Hair-Pulling Robots, and Unpacking the 555

58 mins; May 14, 2021

Chiptunes in an RCA Plug, an Arduino Floppy Drive, $50 CNC, and Wireless Switches

46 mins; May 07, 2021

Three DIY Lab Instruments, Two Tickers, and a MicroCar

48 mins; April 30, 2021

AI is Bad at Linux Terminal, Puppeting Pico in Python, 3D Scanning Comes Up Short

45 mins; April 23, 2021

Eye is Watching You, Alien Art, CNC Chainsaw, and the Galvie Flu

44 mins; April 16, 2021

Python Switching to Match, a Magnetic Dyno, a Flying Dino, and a Spinning Sequencer

52 mins; April 09, 2021

We Have an NFT, Racing a Mobius Strip, and Syncing Video with OpenCV and Blender

52 mins; April 02, 2021

3D Graphics are Ultrasonic, Labotomizing Alexa, 3D-Printing Leaky Rockets, and Gaming the Font System

49 mins; March 26, 2021

One Unicode to Rule Them, Hacking Focus Stacking, Virtual Typing, and Zombie Weather Channel

51 mins; March 19, 2021

Cars that Suck, a Synth Packed with 555s, X-ray Letter Reading, and Pecking at a PS/2 Keyboard

46 mins; March 12, 2021

Eulogizing Daft Punk Helmets, Bitcoin Feeling the Heat, Squeezing Soft Robots, and Motorizing Ice Skates

45 mins; March 05, 2021

FTDI Plays Music, LED Dimming Ain't Easy, Measuring Poop Calories, and Sketchy Laser Cutters

53 mins; February 26, 2021

Connector Kerfuffle, Tuning Fork Time, Spinach Contact Prints, and Tesla's Permanent Memory

55 mins; February 19, 2021

486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We're Headed to Mars

51 mins; February 12, 2021

Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs

55 mins; February 05, 2021

Antennas for Everyone, a Clock Made of Chains, Magic Eye Tubes, and a Little Google Bashing

48 mins; January 29, 2021

Raspberry Pi Microcontroller, Microphone Killswitch, and a 45-Degree 3D-Printer

53 mins; January 22, 2021

Lasering and Milling Absolutely Everything

42 mins; January 15, 2021

Arduino Plays CDs, Virtual Reality in the 60s, and Magical Linear Actuators

59 mins; January 08, 2021

Our Hundredth Episode! Denture Synth, OLED Keycaps, and SNES Raytracing

56 mins; December 24, 2020

China's Moon Rocks, Antikythera Revelations, Creality vs Octoprint, and RC Starship

57 mins; December 18, 2020

We <3 MicroMice, the Case of the Missing Drones, and 3D Prints Tested for Rocketry and Food Prep

51 mins; December 11, 2020

Diaphragm Engine, DIY Dish Washer, Forgotten Soviet Computers, and a Starlink Teardown

45 mins; December 04, 2020

Booting FreeDOS from a Vinyl Record, Floating on Mushrooms, and Tunneling Through a Living Room

14 mins; November 27, 2020

Ep 094: Fake Sun, Hacked Super Mario, Minimum Viable Smart Glasses, and 3D Printers Can't Do That

57 mins; November 20, 2020

Ep093: Hot and Fast Raspberry Pi, Dr. Seuss Drone, M&M Mass Meter, and FPGA Tape Backup

65 hours 29 mins; November 13, 2020

Orbital Data by Mail, Human Flight on Styrofoam Wings, and Seven Shades of E-Ink

51 mins; November 06, 2020

Hackaday Podcast Ep 091: Louisville Exploder, Generating Japanese Joinery, Relay Retrocomputer Rally, and Chop the Robopup

57 mins; October 30, 2020

Ep090: DIY Linux SBC, HDMI CEC, Fake Bluepills, and SCARA Arms

67 hours 55 mins; October 22, 2020

Ep089: 770 Potato Battery, Printing Resin Resist, and No-Internet Video Chat

45 mins; October 15, 2020

Ep088: Flywheel Trebuchet, Thieving Magpies, Hero Engines, and Hypermiling

48 mins; October 08, 2020

Ep087: Sound-Shattering Gliders Pressing Dashcam Buttons, and Ratcheting Up Time

54 mins; October 01, 2020

Ep086: News Overflow, Formula 1/3 Racer, Stand Up Rubber Duckies, and Useless Machine Takes a Turn

53 mins; September 24, 2020

Ep085: Cable Robots Two-Ways, Cubic Raspberry Pi, Plastic Wrap Kayak, and Digging Inductors

51 mins; September 17, 2020

Ep084: Awful Floppy Disk Music, Robot Climbs Walls, An Undersea Lab, Inside a Digital Pregnancy Test

52 mins; September 11, 2020

Ep083: Soooo Many Custom Peripherals, Leaving Bluetooth Footprints, and a Twirlybird on Mars

57 mins; September 02, 2020

Ep082: DJ CNC, NFC Black Box, Sound of Keys, and Payin' for 3D Prints

57 mins; August 27, 2020

Ep081: Mask-apult, Beef Tallow, Grinding Melted Plastic, and Stretching Flowing Metal

54 mins; August 19, 2020

Ep080: Trucks On a Wire, Seeing Sounds, Flightless Drone, and TEA Laser Strike

52 mins; August 13, 2020

Ep079: Wobble Sphere, Pixelflut, Skeeter Traps, and Tracing Apps

55 mins; August 06, 2020

Ep078: Happy B-Day MP3, Eavesdrop on a Mars Probe, Shadowcasting 7-Segments, & a Spicy Commodore 64

57 mins; July 31, 2020

Ep077: Secret Life of SD Cards, Mining Minecraft's Secret Seed, BadPower is Bad, and a Sea of Neon

53 mins; July 22, 2020

Ep076: Grinding Compression Screws, Scratching PCBs, and Melting Foam

55 mins; July 16, 2020

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