Hackaday Podcast
Hosted by Elliot Williams and Al Williams and Tom Nardi and Elliot and Kristina Panos and Jenny List · Hackaday
4.9from 184 ratings
- 394
- Episodes
- 139
- Transcribed
- 184
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 69M
- YouTube views
About Hackaday Podcast
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.
- Publisher
- Hackaday
- Category
- education · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Dec 2018
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
139 of 394 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hackaday Podcast Ep 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays and Jenny Visits a Blast Furnace
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Ep 387: Superhuman Clocks, CAN in USB-C, and the Joys of Bare Metal
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Hackaday Podcast Ep 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays and Jenny Visits a Blast Furnace
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So combine that with a scintillation crystal, which is something that emits a glow when a radioactive particle goes through it, and you can tell not just when you get a hit, you know, because the photomultiplier sees the light given off by the radioactive particle as it scintillates, but you can tell how much juice it had in it. You could tell what the energy of that particle was because the higher energy ones glow brighter. And so this gives you a spectroscopy, right? You can tell not just how many clicks you get, like you would with the Geiger counter, but you could tell how strong they were. […]
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- YouTube views
- 69,054,182
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 66 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 118 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 91
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Elliot Williams and Al Williams and Tom Nardi and Elliot and Kristina Panos and Jenny List host the show. Published by Hackaday.
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