# Ep 358: Soft Displays, LCD Apertures, and Mind Controlled Toys

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Published: 2026-02-20T17:38:02+00:00
Episode link: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/hackaday-podcast-episode-ep-358-soft-displays-lcd-apertures-and-mind-controlled-toys/
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## Resource

For today's podcast Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, and we're pushing the limits of mobile connectivity as Jenny's coming to us from a North Sea ferry. We start by looking forward to the upcoming Hackaday Europe, with a new location in Lecco, Italy. We hope you can join us there! There's a bumper collection of hacks to talk about, with a novel soft pneumatic display, a CRT-based VR headset, an LCD photographic aperture, and a novel time-of-flight sensor array in the line-up.Then there are 3D printed PCBs, Scotch tape for a lens, and a project to map farts. We kid you not. Finally we wrap up with mind controlled toys, and a a treatise on requirements and specifications in an age of AI. Check out all the links over on Hackaday !

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