Hackaday Podcast

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.

Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
Ep 154: A Good Enough CNC, Stepper Motors Unrolled, Smart Two-Wire LEDs, a Volcano Heard Around the World 00:55:33 2022-02-04 17:30
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 00:55:43 2022-01-28 17:30
Ep 152: 555 Timer Extravaganza, EMF Chip Glitching 3 Ways, a Magnetic Mechanical Keyboard, and The Best Tricorder Ever 00:59:04 2022-01-21 17:30
Ep 151: The Hackiest VR Glove, Plotting Boba Fett with Shoelaces, ECU Hacking, and Where Does Ammonia Come From? 01:01:24 2022-01-14 17:30
Ep 150: Blackberry Runs Out of Juice, NODE has your pinouts, Rats learn DOOM, and 2021 is Done 01:02:42 2022-01-07 17:30
Happy New Year! 00:01:09 2021-12-31 17:30
No Podcast This Week, But What's That Sound! 00:03:28 2021-12-24 18:00
Ep 149: Ballerina Bot Balances, Flexures Track Cat Food, PCB Goes Under the Knife, and an ATtiny Does the 555 00:54:27 2021-12-17 17:30
Ep 148: Pokemon Trades, Anniversary iPod Prototype, Stupid Satellite Tricks, and LED Strip Sensors 00:55:17 2021-12-10 17:30
Ep 147: Animating Traces, Sucking and Climbing, Spinning Sails, and Squashing Images 00:56:28 2021-12-03 17:30
Ep 146: Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming 00:58:18 2021-11-26 17:30
Ep 145: Remoticon is On, Movie FX, Cold Plasma, and The Purest Silicon 00:50:10 2021-11-19 17:30
Ep 144: Jigs Jigs Jigs, Faberge Mic, Paranomal Electronics, and a 60-Tube Nixie Clock 00:51:02 2021-11-12 17:30
Ep 143: More Magnesium Please, Robot Bicep Curls, Malamud's General Index, and Are You Down with EMC? 00:52:23 2021-11-05 16:30
Ep 142: 65 Days of Airtime, Racecars Staring at the Ceiling, a Pushy White Cane, and Soapy Water Rockets 00:54:50 2021-10-29 17:30
Ep 141: LowFER Badges, Outrun Clocks, Dichroic Lamps, and Piano Action 00:48:05 2021-10-22 17:30
Ep140: Aqua Battery, IBM Cheese Cutter, Waiting for USB-C, and Digging ADCs 00:52:11 2021-10-15 17:30
Ep 139: Furter Burner, Glowing Potato Peeler, Hacked Smartwatch, and The Last Atlas 00:50:08 2021-10-08 17:30
Ep 138: Breakin' Bluetooth, Doritos Rockets, Wireless Robots, and Autonomous Trolling 00:50:56 2021-10-01 17:30
Ep 137: Maximum Power Point, Electric Car Hacking, Commodore Drive Confidential, and Tesla Handles 00:51:16 2021-09-24 17:30
Ep 136:Smacking Asteroids, Decoding Voyager, Milling Cheap, and PS5 Triggered 00:50:13 2021-09-17 17:30
Ep 135: Three Rocket Hacks, All the Game Boy Gates, and Depth Sounding from a Rowboat 00:54:15 2021-09-10 17:30
Ep 134: Hackers Camping, Metal Detecting, 360o Hearing, and Pocket Computing 00:50:24 2021-09-03 17:30
Ep 133: Caustic Lenses, Not Ice-Cream Automation, Archery Mech Suit, and the Cheapest Robot Arm 00:46:38 2021-08-27 17:30
Ep 132: Laser Disco Ball, Moore's Law in Your Garage, Cheap Cyborg Glasses, and a Mouse That Detects Elephants 00:50:28 2021-08-20 17:30
Ep 131: Have a Heart, Transputer Pi, Just the Wing, and a Flipped Cable Fries Radio 00:42:51 2021-08-13 17:30
Ep 130: Upside Down 3D-Printer, Biplane Quadcopter, Gutting a Calculator Watch, and GitHub CoPilot 00:51:30 2021-08-06 17:30
Ep 129: Super Clever 3D Printing, Jigs and Registration Things, 90s Car Audio, and Smooth LED Fades 00:50:35 2021-07-30 17:30
Ep 128: 3D-Printing Injection Molds, Squiggly Audio Tape, Curvy Mirrors, and Space Cadets 00:44:52 2021-07-23 17:30
Ep 127: Whippletree Clamps, Sniffing Your Stomach Radio, Multimeter Hum Fix, and C64 Demo; No C64 00:53:02 2021-07-16 17:30
Ep 126: Cable 3D-Scanner, Tesla Charger Robot, Ultrasonic Anemometer, and a Zoetrope 00:48:49 2021-07-09 17:30
Ep 125: Linux Users Talking Windows 11, Pop Bottle Filament, Old Phones with Modern Guts, and Eavesdropping in RF 00:54:13 2021-07-02 17:30
Ep 124: Hard Drivin' with Graphene, Fooled by Lasers, Etching with Poison Acid, and All The Linux Commands 00:52:17 2021-06-25 17:30
Ep 123: Radioactive Rhinos, Wile-E-Coyote Jetpack, Radio Hacks 3-Ways, and Battery Welders on the Spot 00:50:19 2021-06-18 17:30
Ep 122: Faster Than Wind Travel, Sisyphish, ALU Desktop Calculator, and Mice in Space 00:53:19 2021-06-11 17:30
Ep 121: Crazy Bikes, DIY Flip Dots, EV Mountain Climbing, and Trippy Tripterons 00:48:47 2021-06-04 17:30
Ep 120: Chip Shortage, VGA Glitching, Truly Owning Roku, and Omniballs 00:50:24 2021-05-28 17:30
Ep 119: Random Robot Writing, Slithering Snake Shenanigans, and Phased Array Phenomena 00:50:38 2021-05-21 17:30
Ep 118: Apple AirTag Hacked, Infill Without Perimeters, Hair-Pulling Robots, and Unpacking the 555 00:58:05 2021-05-14 17:30
Ep 117: Chiptunes in an RCA Plug, an Arduino Floppy Drive, $50 CNC, and Wireless Switches 00:46:02 2021-05-07 17:30
Ep116: Three DIY Lab Instruments, Two Tickers, and a MicroCar 00:48:30 2021-04-30 17:30
Ep115: AI is Bad at Linux Terminal, Puppeting Pico in Python, 3D Scanning Comes Up Short 00:45:17 2021-04-23 17:30
Ep114: Eye is Watching You, Alien Art, CNC Chainsaw, and the Galvie Flu 00:44:27 2021-04-16 17:30
Ep113: Python Switching to Match, a Magnetic Dyno, a Flying Dino, and a Spinning Sequencer 00:52:23 2021-04-09 17:30
Ep 112: We Have an NFT, Racing a Mobius Strip, and Syncing Video with OpenCV and Blender 00:52:17 2021-04-02 17:30
Ep111: 3D Graphics are Ultrasonic, Lobotomizing Alexa, 3D-Printing Leaky Rockets, and Gaming the Font System 00:49:20 2021-03-26 16:30
Ep110: One Unicode to Rule Them, Hacking Focus Stacking, Virtual Typing, and Zombie Weather Channel 00:51:03 2021-03-19 16:30
Ep109: Cars that Suck, a Synth Packed with 555s, X-ray Letter Reading, and Pecking at a PS/2 Keyboard 00:46:33 2021-03-12 17:30
Ep108: Eulogizing Daft Punk Helmets, Bitcoin Feeling the Heat, Squeezing Soft Robots, and Motorizing Ice Skates 00:45:18 2021-03-05 17:30
Ep107: FTDI Plays Music, LED Dimming Ain't Easy, Measuring Poop Calories, and Sketchy Laser Cutters 00:53:35 2021-02-26 17:30
Ep106: Connector Kerfuffle, Tuning Fork Time, Spinach Contact Prints, and Tesla's Permanent Memory 00:55:34 2021-02-19 17:30
Ep 105: 486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We're Headed to Mars 00:51:17 2021-02-12 17:30
Ep104: Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs 00:55:33 2021-02-05 17:30
Ep103: Antennas for Everyone, a Clock Made of Chains, Magic Eye Tubes, and a Little Google Bashing 00:48:57 2021-01-29 17:30
Ep102: Raspberry Pi Microcontroller, Microphone Killswitch, and a 45-Degree 3D-Printer 00:53:22 2021-01-22 17:30
Ep101: Lasering and Milling Absolutely Everything 00:42:23 2021-01-15 17:30
Ep100: Arduino Plays CDs, Virtual Reality in the 60s, and Magical Linear Actuators 00:59:20 2021-01-08 17:30
Ep099: Our Hundredth Episode! Denture Synth, OLED Keycaps, and SNES Raytracing 00:56:49 2020-12-24 17:30
Ep098: China's Moon Rocks, Antikythera Revelations, Creality vs Octoprint, and RC Starship 00:57:53 2020-12-18 17:30
Ep097: We ♥ MicroMice, the Case of the Missing Drones, and 3D Prints Tested for Rocketry and Food Prep 00:51:43 2020-12-11 17:30
Ep096: Diaphragm Engine, DIY Dish Washer, Forgotten Soviet Computers, and a Starlink Teardown 00:45:23 2020-12-04 17:30
Ep095: Booting FreeDOS from a Vinyl Record, Floating on Mushrooms, and Tunneling Through a Living Room 00:14:39 2020-11-27 10:27
Ep094: Fake Sun, Hacked Super Mario, Minimum Viable Smart Glasses, and 3D Printers Can't Do That 00:57:39 2020-11-20 17:30
Ep093: Hot and Fast Raspberry Pi, Dr. Seuss Drone, M&M Mass Meter, and FPGA Tape Backup 01:05:29 2020-11-13 17:30
Ep092: Orbital Data by Mail, Human Flight on Styrofoam Wings, and Seven Shades of E-Ink 00:51:58 2020-11-06 17:30
Ep091: Louisville Exploder, Generating Japanese Joinery, Relay Retrocomputer Rally, and Chop the Robopup 00:57:12 2020-10-30 16:00
Ep090: DIY Linux SBC, HDMI CEC, Fake Bluepills, and SCARA Arms 01:07:55 2020-10-23 02:00
Ep089: 770 Potato Battery, Printing Resin Resist, and No-Internet Video Chat 00:45:06 2020-10-16 02:00
Ep088: Flywheel Trebuchet, Thieving Magpies, Hero Engines, and Hypermiling 00:48:37 2020-10-09 02:00
Ep087: Sound-Shattering Gliders Pressing Dashcam Buttons, and Ratcheting Up Time 00:54:03 2020-10-02 02:00
Ep086: News Overflow, Formula 1/3 Racer, Stand Up Rubber Duckies, and Useless Machine Takes a Turn 00:53:36 2020-09-25 02:00
Ep085: Cable Robots Two-Ways, Cubic Raspberry Pi, Plastic Wrap Kayak, and Digging Inductors 00:51:21 2020-09-18 02:00
Ep084: Awful Floppy Disk Music, Robot Climbs Walls, An Undersea Lab, Inside a Digital Pregnancy Test 00:52:12 2020-09-11 17:30
Ep083: Soooo Many Custom Peripherals, Leaving Bluetooth Footprints, and a Twirlybird on Mars 00:57:17 2020-09-03 02:00
Ep082: DJ CNC, NFC Black Box, Sound of Keys, and Payin' for 3D Prints 00:57:54 2020-08-28 02:00
Ep081: Mask-apult, Beef Tallow, Grinding Melted Plastic, and Stretching Flowing Metal 00:54:18 2020-08-20 02:00
Ep080: Trucks On a Wire, Seeing Sounds, Flightless Drone, and TEA Laser Strike 00:52:10 2020-08-14 02:00
Ep079: Wobble Sphere, Pixelflut, Skeeter Traps, and Tracing Apps 00:55:31 2020-08-07 02:00
Ep078: Happy B-Day MP3, Eavesdrop on a Mars Probe, Shadowcasting 7-Segments, & a Spicy Commodore 64 00:57:46 2020-07-31 17:30
Ep077: Secret Life of SD Cards, Mining Minecraft's Secret Seed, BadPower is Bad, and a Sea of Neon 00:53:45 2020-07-23 02:00
Ep076: Grinding Compression Screws, Scratching PCBs, and Melting Foam 00:55:13 2020-07-17 02:00
Ep075: 3D Printing Japanese Joinery, Android PHONK, One-Armed Time Bandit, and Whistling Bridges 00:46:28 2020-07-10 02:00
Ep074: Stuttering Swashplate, Bending Mirrors, Chasing Curves, and Farewell to Segway 00:51:47 2020-07-03 02:00
Ep073: Betrayal By Clipboard, Scratching 4K, Flaming Solder Joints, and Electric Paper 00:49:38 2020-06-26 17:30
Ep072: Robo Golf Clubs, Plastic Speedboats, No-Juice Flipdots, and Super Soakers 00:56:17 2020-06-19 17:30
Ep071: Measuring Micrometers, the Goldilocks Fit, Little Linear Motors, and 8-bit Games on ESP32 00:52:52 2020-06-11 02:00
Ep070: Memory Bump, Strontium Rain, Sentient Solder Smoke, and Botting Browsers 00:56:21 2020-06-05 02:00
Ep069: Calculator Controversy, Socketing SOIC, Metal on the Moon, and Basking in Bench Tools 00:53:21 2020-05-29 02:00
Ep068: Picky Feeders, Slaggy Tables, Wheelie Droids, and Janky Batteries 00:58:55 2020-05-22 02:00
Ep067: Winking Out of IoT, Seas of LEDs, Stuffing PCBs, and Vectrex is Awesome 01:00:11 2020-05-15 02:00
Ep066: The Audio Overdub Episode; Tape Loop Scratcher, Typewriter Simulator, and Relay Adder 00:51:47 2020-05-08 02:00
Ep065: Game Boy Hacks Galore, Cable Robo Elbow, Pi Cam Solargraphy, the Deepest Sub is Crushing It 01:03:57 2020-04-30 02:00
Ep064: The COBOL Cabal, the Demoscene Bytes, and the BTLE Cure 01:04:31 2020-04-24 02:00
Ep063: Magnetic Gears, AI Green Screen, Plasma <3 Sharpie, and a Rubbery Drivetrain 00:55:32 2020-04-17 02:00
Ep062: Tripping Batteries, Ventilator Design, Stinky Prints, and Simon Says Servos 00:54:27 2020-04-10 02:00
Ep061: Runaway Soldering Irons, Open Source Ventilators, 3D Printed Solder Stencils, & Radar Motion 00:54:36 2020-04-03 02:00
Ep060: Counting Bees, DogBox Transmissions, and the Lowdown on Vents, BiPAP, and PCR 01:06:16 2020-03-27 16:30
Ep059: Hydraulic Rockets & Presses, Machine Vision Bounces & Stares, Smart Speakers Listen to You 01:04:34 2020-03-19 01:00
Ep058: Motorheads, 3D Prints that Bend Metal, and Homebuilt Onewheel Death Machines 00:51:58 2020-03-13 17:05
Ep057: Dismantled LCD Panels, Unexpected Dynamometer, a Flappy POV, and Dastardly Encryption 00:58:37 2020-03-06 01:00
Ep056: Cat of 9 Heads, Robot Squats, PhD in ESP32, and Did You Hear About Sonos? 00:57:09 2020-02-28 01:00
Ep055: Most Cyberpunk Synthesizer, Data in Your Cells, Bubbly in Your Printer, & Dystopian Peepshow 00:49:48 2020-02-21 01:00
Ep054: Xenomorph Cookies, 101 Uses for Hot Glue, Rolling Robots, and a Clippy Computer 00:57:53 2020-02-14 01:00
Ep053: 1-Bit Computer a Family Affair, Display is Actually Fabulous, and Hoverboard is a Drill Press 00:55:20 2020-02-07 01:00
Ep052: Shorting Components, Printing Typewriter Balls, Taking Time Lapse, and Makerspace Movie Prop 00:53:27 2020-01-31 01:00
Ep051: Pointing With Your Tongue, C64 Touchpad, USB Killcord, and Audacity Does Everything 00:58:19 2020-01-24 01:00
Ep050: Counterfeit Chips, Servo Kalimba, Resistor Colors, Pi Emulation, and SED Maze Solver 01:00:15 2020-01-17 01:00
Ep049: Tiny Machine Learning, Basement Battery Bonanza, and Does This Uranium Feel Hot? 00:55:05 2020-01-10 01:00
Ep048: Truly Trustworthy Hardware, Glowing Uranium Marbles, Bitstreaming the USB, Chaos of Congress 01:08:00 2020-01-01 01:00
Ep047: Prusa Controversy, Bottle Organ Breakdown, PCBs Bending Backwards, and Listen to Your LED 01:00:47 2019-12-20 01:00
Ep046: Bring Us Your Nonsense, Hack NES Clones, Grasping FPGAs, Music Hacks, & Fish Tank of Random 01:01:25 2019-12-13 01:00
Ep045: Raspberry Pi Bug, Rapidly Aging Vodka, Raining on the Cloud, & This Wasn't a Supercon Episode 01:08:01 2019-12-05 01:00
Ep044: Special Supercon Edition 00:44:59 2019-11-22 17:30
Ep043: Ploopy, Castlevania Cube-Scroller, Projection Map Your Face, and Smoosh Those 3D Prints 00:53:41 2019-11-08 01:00
Ep042: Capacitive Earthquakes, GRBL on ESP32, Solenoid Engines, and the TI-99 Space Program 00:54:07 2019-11-01 01:00
Ep041: The "How Not To" Episode of Rebreathers, Chain Sprockets, Hovercraft, and Data Logging 00:50:52 2019-10-24 02:00
Ep040: 3D Printed Everything, Strength v Toughness, Blades of Fiber, and What Can't Coffee Do? 00:55:28 2019-10-18 02:00
Ep039: Elliot <3 Lightning Detector, Ikea Dark Mode, Smartest Watch, Solar Sailing, VAWT Controversy 01:02:26 2019-10-10 02:00
Ep038: Cyberdecks, Resin 3D-Printing vs FDM, Silicone Injection Molding, the Pickle Fork Fiasco 00:52:35 2019-10-04 17:30
Ep037: 2 Flavors of Robot Dog, Fitness Tracker Hacks, Clocks Wind Themselves, Helicopter Chainsaws 00:56:35 2019-09-27 17:30
Ep036: Camera Rig Makes CNC Jealous, Become Your Own Time Transmitter, Pi HiFi 80s Vibe, DJ Xiaomi 00:47:38 2019-09-20 17:30
Ep035: LED Cubes Taking Over, Ada Vanquishes C Bugs, Rad Monitoring is Hot, 3D Printing Goes Full 3D 00:58:54 2019-09-12 02:00
Ep034: 15 Years of Hackaday, ESP Hacked, Hydrogen Sipping Cars, Giant Drawbot, Really Remote RC Cars 00:50:03 2019-09-06 02:00
Ep033: Decompressing from Camp, Nuclear Stirling Engines, Carphone or Phonecar, and ArduMower 01:00:19 2019-08-30 02:00
Ep032: Meteorite Snow Globes, Radioactive Ramjet Rockets, Autonomous Water Boxes, and Ball Reversers 00:39:20 2019-08-23 17:30
Ep 031: Holonomic Drives, Badges of DEF CON, We Don't Do On-Chip Debugging, and Manufacturing Snafus 00:38:05 2019-08-16 02:00
Ep030: 7 Years of RTL-SDR, 3D Prints Optimized for the Eye, Sega Audiophile, Swimming in Brighteners 00:49:54 2019-08-09 18:00
Ep029: Your Face in Silver Sand, Tires of the Future, ESP32 all the CNC Things, and Sub in a Jug 00:55:54 2019-08-02 17:30
Ep028: Brain Skepticism Turned Up to 11, Web Browsing in '69, Verilog For 7400 Logic 00:54:07 2019-07-26 17:33
Ep027: Confusingly USB-C, Glowey Displays, Logically VGA, Hackers that Changed Gaming 00:48:51 2019-07-19 17:30
Ep026: Tamper-Proof Electronics, Selfie Drones, Rocket Fuel, Wire Benders, Wizard-Level Soldering 00:41:51 2019-07-12 17:30
Ep025: Of Cheese Graters, Fauxberries, Printed Gears, Power Latching, and Art-Loving AI 00:51:46 2019-06-28 17:30
Ep024: Mashing Smartphone Buttons, Sound Blastering, Trash Printing, and a Ludicrous Loom 00:49:20 2019-06-21 17:29
Ep023: Everything Breaks... Raspberry Pi, ADS-B, Hackaday Website, and Automotive Airbags 00:55:41 2019-06-14 17:30
Ep022: King of Power Banks, Great SDR Hacks, Sand Reflow, and Rat Rod Mower 00:42:37 2019-06-07 17:44
Ep021: Chasing Rockets, Tripping on Synthesizers, an IoT Security Fail, and Alzheimer's Detection 00:49:08 2019-05-31 16:57
Ep020: Slaying the Dragon of EL, Siege Weapon Physics, Dis-entangled Charlieplex, Laser Internet 01:06:19 2019-05-24 17:00
Ep019: Extreme Clock Accuracy, Mobius Gears and Planetary Stunts, Jamming All Fobs, Pi in Your Wii 00:40:35 2019-05-17 17:00
Ep018: Faxploitation! Ikea RFID Hacking, Space Ads, Hydrogen Dones, And Blinkies 00:52:38 2019-05-10 17:00
Ep017: Are Cheap Microcontrollers Worth It? Android on Your Bike. Plus Food Printers and Coffee Bots 00:55:14 2019-05-03 17:00
Ep016: 3D Printing with Steel, Molding with Expanded Foam, QUIP-Package Parts, and Aged Solder 00:53:45 2019-04-26 17:00
EP015: Going Low Frequency, Robotic Machines, Disk Usage For Budgets, And Cellphones Versus Weather 00:56:58 2019-04-19 17:00
EP014: Keeping Raspberry's SD Card Alive, We Love MRRF, and How Hot Are Flip Chips? 00:56:19 2019-04-12 15:33
Ep013: Naked Components, Shocking Power Supplies, Eye-Popping Clock, And The Hackaday Prize 00:46:34 2019-04-05 17:00
Ep012: Nearly Perpetual Motion, Mars Rover Carries Kid, and Doc Brown's Cat Feeder 00:45:43 2019-03-29 16:10
Ep011: Weird Keyboards, Salvaging LCD Screens, and Mike Interviews Ivan of Espressif in Shanghai 01:07:32 2019-03-22 16:45
Ep010: XKCD Graphs, Turing Complete Meta Computers, False Finger Printing 3D Printers, and Jargon 00:53:04 2019-03-15 16:33
Ep009: On the Edge of AI, Comment Your Code, Big Big Wheels, and Makers of Munich 00:52:20 2019-03-08 17:30
Ep008: The Art Episode: Joe Kim, Strings And CRTs, Hydrogen Done 2-Ways 00:52:22 2019-03-01 16:00
Ep007: Everything Microcontrollers, Deadly Clock Accuracy, CT X-Rays, Mountains Of E-Waste 01:06:10 2019-02-22 17:15
Ep006: Reversing iPod Screens, Hot Isotopes, We <3 Parts, and Biometric Toiletseats 00:47:35 2019-02-15 17:15
Ep005: Undead Lightbulbs, Home Chemistry, and the Strength of 3D Printing 00:47:03 2019-02-08 17:00
Ep004: Taking the Blue Pill, Abusing Resistors, and Searching for Drones 00:39:02 2019-02-01 17:09
Ep003: Igloos, Lidar, and the Blinking LED of RF Hacking 00:48:46 2019-01-24 01:00
Ep002: Curious Gadgets and the FPGA Brain Trust 01:01:24 2019-01-15 01:00
Ep001 - Seriously, We Know What We're Doing 00:49:13 2019-01-11 01:00
Hackaday 2018 Year in Review 01:06:33 2018-12-18 20:00