{"podcast":{"title":"Hackaday Podcast","slug":"hackaday-podcast-679153","podcast_index_feed_id":679153,"rss_url":"https://hackaday.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://hackaday.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/9/7/b/497b2a653a4a1b1a/avatars-000550623855-ybfkqd-original.jpg","author":"Hackaday","episode_count":382,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast-679153"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 358: Soft Displays, LCD Apertures, and Mind Controlled Toys","slug":"ep-358-soft-displays-lcd-apertures-and-mind-controlled-toys","published_at":"2026-02-20T17:38:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast-679153/ep-358-soft-displays-lcd-apertures-and-mind-controlled-toys","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast-679153","url":"https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/hackaday-podcast-episode-ep-358-soft-displays-lcd-apertures-and-mind-controlled-toys/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/hackaday/Hackaday_Podcast-Ep358_fixed.mp3?dest-id=2437685","summary":"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 !","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3135,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hackaday-podcast-679153/episodes/ep-358-soft-displays-lcd-apertures-and-mind-controlled-toys/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast-679153/ep-358-soft-displays-lcd-apertures-and-mind-controlled-toys.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}