Before Elliot Williams jumps on a train for Hackaday Europe, there was just enough time to meet up virtually with Tom Nardi to discuss their favorite hacks and stories from the previous week. This episode's topics include the potential benefits

Behind the Epic SSH Hack, 1980s Cyber Butler, The Story of Season 7

14 days ago 42m 43s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos convened once again to give the lowdown on this week's best hacks. First up in the news -- it's giga-sunset time for Gigaset IoT devices, which simultaneously became paperweights on

Cheap Minimills, 65-in-1 Electronics, and Time on Moon

21 days ago 1h 3m

It was Dan's turn behind the mic with Elliot this time as we uncovered the latest from the world of hacking, and what an eclectic mix it was. It was slightly heavy on machining, with a look at mini-mills that are better than nothing, and a DIY

Better DCMA, AI Spreadsheet Play, and Home Assistants Your Way

28 days ago 1h 8m

No need to wonder what stories Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams were reading this week. They'll tell you about them in this week's podcast. The guys revisit the McDonald's ice cream machine issue to start. This week, DIY voice

Wheelchair Hacking, Big Little Science at Home, Arya Talks PCBs

Mar 15th, 2024 1h 2m

Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they go over their favorite hacks and stories from the past week. This episode starts off with an update on Hackaday Europe 2024, which is now less than a month away, and from there dives

Rickroll Toothbrush, Keyboard Cat, Zombie Dialup

Mar 8th, 2024 36m 55s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up in a new disposable location to give the lowdown on this week's best hacks. First up in the news -- the Home Sweet Home Automation contest is still going strong. You've still

KiCad 8, Two Weather Stations, and Multiple I2Cs

Mar 1st, 2024 1h 7m

It's a leap year, so Elliot and Dan put the extra day to good use tracking down all the hottest hacks from the past week and dorking out about them. There's big news in the KiCad community, and we talked about all the new features along with so

Twin-T, Three D, and Driving to a T

Feb 23rd, 2024 59m 44s

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams sat down to compare notes on their favorite Hackaday posts of the week. You can listen in on this week's podcast. The guys talked about the latest Hackaday contest and plans for Hackaday Europe.

So Much Unix, Flipper Flip-out, and the Bus Pirate 5

Feb 16th, 2024 1h 11m

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss all the week's best and most interesting hacks and stories, starting with Canada's misguided ban on the Flipper Zero for being too spooky. From there they'll look at the state-of-the-art in

The Hacks and Just the Hacks

Feb 14th, 2024 21m 21s

Last week, we held an Episode 256 celebration round-table, but Kristina and I also met afterwards to talk about all the week's hacks. That part didn't fit, but we didn't want to deprive you of your weekly hack fix either, so here they are!

0, 256, 378, 0xFF, and 10000000

Feb 9th, 2024 41m 28s

For this week's episode, we did something super special -- we all convened to answer your burning questions about your hosts, both as hackers and as humans. We kick things off with a segment featuring a hearty round-table discussion between Ell

Balloon on the Moon, Nanotech Goblets, and USB All the Way

Feb 2nd, 2024 1h 7m

This week, Dan joined Elliot for a review of the best and brightest hacks of the week in Episode 0xFF, which both of us found unreasonably exciting; it's a little like the base-2 equivalent of watching the odometer flip over to 99,999. If you k

AI, Hijack Guy, and Water Rockets Fly

Jan 26th, 2024 1h 4m

This week Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams chew the fat about the Haier IOT problem, and all other top Hackaday stories of the week. Want to prove your prowess at C programming? Take a quiz! Or marvel at some hairy display rever

More Wood Robot, Glitching and Fuming Nitric Acid, We Heart USB-C

Jan 19th, 2024 1h 24m

This week Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off with a traffic report from the Moon, which has suddenly become a popular destination for wayward robots. [caption id="attachment_657278" align="alignright" width="300"] A

X1Plus Hacks Bambu, Scotto Builds a Katana Keyboard, and Bass Puts out Fire

Jan 12th, 2024 45m 30s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up to discuss the best hacks of the previous week. It's CES time once again in Las Vegas, and you know what that means -- some wacky technologies like this AI pet door that rejec

Pluto, Pinball, Speedy Surgery, and DIY GPS

Jan 5th, 2024 1h 6m

Welcome to 2024! This time around, Elliot and Dan ring in a new year of awesome hacks with quite an eclectic mix. We kick things off with a Pluto pity party and find out why the tiny ex-planet deserved what it got. What do you do if you need to

Trains, RC Planes, and EEPROMS in Flames

Dec 29th, 2023 46m 15s

This week in the Podcast, Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communication Congress, hearing tales of incredible reverse engineering that got locomotives back up and running, while Al Williams is thinking over what happened in 2023. There’s a lot

Data by Laser and Parachute, Bluetooth Hacks, Google's Gotta Google

Dec 22nd, 2023 1h 9m

'Twas the podcast before Christmas, and all through the house, the best hacks of the week are dancing around Elliot and Tom's heads like sugar-plums. Whatever that means. Before settling their brains in for a long winter's nap, they'll talk abo

Cthulhu Clock Radio Transharmonium, Thunderscan, and How to Fill Up in Space

Dec 15th, 2023 1h 3m

This week, Elliot sat down with Dan for the penultimate podcast of 2023, and what a week it was. We started with news about Voyager; at T+46 years from launch, any news tends to be bad, and the latest glitch has everyone worried. We also took a

Cameras From Gingerbread or Hardboard, and the Insecurity of Bluetooth

Dec 9th, 2023 44m 8s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up to discuss the best hacks of the previous week. We have no nerdy news this week, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Speaking of nothingness, we have no winner for What's Tha

Bypassing Fingerprint Readers is Easy, Killing Memory Chips is Hard, Cell Phones vs Sperm

Dec 1st, 2023 1h 17m

It's the week after Thanksgiving (for some of us) and if you're sick of leftovers, you're in luck as Elliot and Dan get together to discuss the freshest and best inter-holiday hacks. We'll cue up the "Mission: Impossible" theme for a self-destr

The Silver Swan, ET's Umbrella Antenna, Model Tanks vs Space Shuttle Tires

Nov 24th, 2023 59m 28s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi link up through the magic of the Internet to go over some of their favorite stories from the last week. After revealing the bone-chilling winners of this year's Halloween

Fake Chips, Drinking Radium, and Spotting Slippery Neutrinos

Nov 17th, 2023 45m 39s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up to discuss the best hacks of the previous week, at least in our opinions. After chasing the angry bird away from Kristina's office, we go to the news and learn that we're in t

Supercon, Super Printing, and Super Gyros

Nov 10th, 2023 44m 11s

With solder fumes from Supercon badge hacking still in the air, Hackaday's Elliot Williams and Al Williams met to compare notes about the conference talks, badge hacking, and more. Tom Nardi dropped by, too. Did you miss Supercon? It isn't quit

Mechanical Math, KaboomBox, and Racing the Beam

Oct 27th, 2023 43m 3s

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up from their separate but equally pin drop-quiet offices to discuss the best hacks of the previous week. Well, we liked these one, anyway. First up in the news, it's finally tim