It was Elliot and Dan on the podcast today, taking a look at the best the week had to offer in terms of your hacks. We started with surprising news about the rapidly approaching Supercon keynote; no spoilers, but Star Trek fans such as we who don’t have tickets will be greatly disappointed. Elliot waxed […]
This week Jonathan talks to James Cole about Firefly III, the personal finance manager! This one itches James’ own itch, but brings great visualization and management tools for your personal finances! https://www.firefly-iii.org/ https://docs.firefly-iii.org/?mtm_campaign=firefly-iii-org&mtm_kwd=top-link https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/ Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like […]
The nights are drawing in for Europeans, and Elliot Williams is joined this week by Jenny List for an evening podcast looking at the past week in all things Hackaday. After reminding listeners of the upcoming Hackaday Supercon and Jawncon events, we take a moment to mark the sad passing of the prolific YouTuber, Robert […]
This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a MCU and layout into the original ROM footprint? And what’s next for the project? Listen to find out! https://piers.rocks/ https://onerom.org/ https://github.com/piersfinlayson/one-rom https://github.com/piersfinlayson/airfrog Did you know […]
Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you. If you listen in, you’ll hear exciting news about the upcoming SuperCon and the rare occurrence of Al winning the What’s That Sound game. For hacks, the guys talk about the IEEE’s take on the “best” programming languages […]
This week Jonathan talks with Brandon and TC about Veilid, the peer-to-peer networking framework that takes inspiration from Tor, and VeilidChat, the encrypted messenger built on top of it. What was the inspiration? How does it work, and what can you do with it? Listen to find out! Veilid.com https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid https://veilid.gitlab.io/developer-book/index.html Did you know you […]
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this week’s episode off with an update on the rapidly approaching 2025 Supercon in Pasadena, California. From there they’ll talk about the surprisingly high-tech world of vapes, a flying DeLorean several years in the making, non-contact pulse monitoring, and the potential of backyard radio telescopes to do […]
This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Paulus Schoutsen about Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Music Assistant, all under the umbrella of the Open Home Foundation. Watch to see Paulus convince Rob and Jonathan that they need to step up their home automation games! https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://esphome.io/ https://www.music-assistant.io/ https://www.openhomefoundation.org/ Did you know you can watch the live […]
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the tubes to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so. In Hackaday news, we’ve got a new contest running! Read all about the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge, sponsored by […]