# Ep024: Mashing Smartphone Buttons, Sound Blastering, Trash Printing, and a Ludicrous Loom

- Show: [Hackaday Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast)
- Published: 2019-06-21
- Length: 49m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous
- Listen: https://hackaday.libsyn.com/ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous-loom

## Summary

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys discuss several hardware hacks, including Sam Smith's direct-use recycled plastic 3D printer, Kurt Schaefer's computer-controlled loom with hundreds of 3D printed parts, and Eric Schrab's reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 ISA card. They also cover a research paper from Columbia University and Snap Inc. on adding physical buttons to smartphones using accelerometers, and Sean Boyce's large-scale brass etching project. The episode concludes with a look at open-source nuclear reactor plans from the defunct company Transatomic and a 12-year-old's home-built fusion reactor.

## Chapters

- [0:02](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=2) Introduction: Google Lyrics Hack and EU Electric Car Noise Regulations
- [6:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=375) Sam Smith's Direct-Use Recycled Plastic 3D Printer
- [9:49](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=589) Tom Nardi's 555 Timer Breadboard Model and Inventor Artist's Drawbot
- [17:40](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=1060) Eric Schrab's Reverse-Engineered Sound Blaster 1.0
- [20:30](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=1230) Kurt Schaefer's Computer-Controlled Loom
- [23:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=1408) Columbia University and Snap Inc. Smartphone Haptic Widgets
- [29:16](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=1756) Quick Hacks: Weather Owl, OpenSCAD Library, and Perovskites
- [35:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=2104) Sean Boyce's Large-Scale Brass Etching
- [42:55](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2019-06-21-ep024-mashing-smartphone-buttons-sound-blastering-trash-printing-and-a-ludicrous#t=2575) Transatomic Nuclear Reactor Plans and Home Fusion

## Topics

- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)
- [PCB design & layout](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pcb-design)
- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)
- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Sam Smith (other)
- Kurt Schaefer (other)
- Eric Schrab (other)
- Sound Blaster 1.0 (product)
- Columbia University (other)
- Snap Incorporated (company)
- Transatomic (company)
- ESP8266 (chip)
- 28 BYJ 48 (chip)
- 555 timer (chip)

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- [474: The Doublemint Gum Remote Control](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2025-03-07-474-the-doublemint-gum-remote-control) (Making It)
- [033 - All Over the Place](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/unnamed-reverse-engineering-podcast/2020-04-27-033-all-over-the-place) (Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast)
- [Raspberry Pi 500, Robot Roadies, Huge 3d Printers and Car Hacking!](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2023-11-26-raspberry-pi-500-robot-roadies-huge-3d-printers-and-car-hacking) (The Electromaker Show)
- [351: Dextral or Sinistral](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-11-13-351-dextral-or-sinistral) (Embedded.fm)

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