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Hackaday Podcast

Hackaday Podcast

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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.All rights reserved
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  • Ep 375: Rebuilding Tech on Our Terms and the Hero Nerd
    Jun 26 2026

    In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener mail. The discussion moves on to hacking bike counter, homebrew upgrades to the Nintendo Entertainment System, and building RAM from whats in the parts bin. You'll hear about the latest drop-in upgrade for a classic Casio watch, hosting light bulbs that host subversive literature, and loading Wii U games from a weird disk drive from the 1980s. They'll wrap things up with a dive into the evolving portrayals of brilliant rebels in media, and all the things you can do with a cheap router.

    Check out the links over on Hackaday if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Ep 374: Flippin' Phones, Sexy Spraysers, and Frikkin' Lasers
    Jun 19 2026

    Things are back to normal around the Podcast studio, and this week you'll hear the dulcet tones of Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos.

    In Hackaday news, we still have a Frikkin' Lasers Challenge going on, and now you can even enter your project into it! Join the ranks, won't you?

    Not only do we have a triple mailbag this week, we have another failed attempt at guessing the sound by Kristina. However, [Baron Maximilian von Knuthausen] knew that it was a train, a British one, even. Then it's on to the hacks, of course, which ought to go far in explaining the show title.

    Check out the links if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!

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    49 mins
  • Ep 373: GPS, Danger In Space, and Robby the Robot
    Jun 12 2026

    Last week, Elliot got his foot stepped on by a 1.5 metric ton draft horse, and boy is he glad to be back to the relative safety of podcasting! Joining him today is Jenny List, no stranger to farm life, who has been trodden by a cow. It's going to be one of those podcasts, folks.

    Another thing the two hosts have in common is a love for the mystery of the numbers station. But did you know that GPS satellites, for the last 20 years, have broadcast literally millions of secret messages to everyone on the earth with a receiver? After that bombshell, we have an ATtiny85 emulating an 8080, a primer on how to embed magnets in 3D prints, definitive proof that more than one cassette mechanism is still being manufactured, and a look at what makes home automation enthusiasts tick.

    Check out the links over at Hackaday if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!

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    54 mins
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Nice episode and good review of Ada. One thing is that Ada actually gives you far better and easier control over memory than C. The runtime will stop the program before it is exploited unless you handle the constraint error, however. It isn't like Rust where you fight the compiler. You could even just use C like types but you would lose some bug protection.

Ada is so much nicer to use than C

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