Ben Krasnow Measures Human Calorie Consumption By Collecting The “Output”

It’s a bit icky reading between the lines on this one… but it’s a fascinating experiment! In his latest Applied Science video, [Ben Krasnow] tries to measure how efficient the human body is at getting energy from food by accurately …read more

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Hackaday Podcast 106: Connector Kerfuffle, Tuning Fork Time, Spinach Contact Prints, and Tesla’s Permanent Memory

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recount the coolest hacks from the past week. Most clocks keep time with a quartz crystal, but we discuss one that uses a tuning fork… like the kind you use to tune a …read more

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James West Began 40 Years at Bell Labs with World-Changing Microphone Tech

I’d be surprised if you weren’t sitting within fifty feet of one of James Edward Maceo West’s most well-known inventions — the electret microphone. Although MEMS microphones have seen a dramatic rise as smartphone technology progresses, electret microphones still sit …read more

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Hackaday Podcast 105: 486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We’re Headed to Mars

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams unpack great hacks of the past week. We loves seeing the TIL311 — a retro display in a DIP package — exquisitely recreated with SMD electronics and resin casting. You might never need …read more

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Hackaday Podcast Ep 104: Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys spin the wheel of hardware hacking brilliance. We’re enamored with the quest for a root shell on a Nissan Xterra infotainment system, and smitten with a scanning microscope that uses a laser beam …read more

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Hackaday Podcast Ep 103: Antennas for Everyone, a Clock Made of Chains, Magic Eye Tubes, and a Little Google Bashing

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and  Elliot Williams discuss the greatest hacks of the week that was. Antennas aren’t rocket science, so this week we really enjoyed a video that demystifies antenna designs and a project that tunes up the antennas …read more

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Hackaday Podcast 102: Raspberry Pi Microcontroller, Microphone Killswitch, and a 45-Degree 3D-Printer

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys sift through a week of excellent hacks. Big news is of course the Raspberry Pi microcontroller which Elliot had a few weeks to play around with on the bench before the announcement — …read more

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