# Ep 151: The Hackiest VR Glove, Plotting Boba Fett with Shoelaces, ECU Hacking, and Where Does Ammonia Come From?

- Show: [Hackaday Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast)
- Published: 2022-01-14
- Length: 1h 01m
- Episode: 151
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w
- Listen: https://hackaday.libsyn.com/ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-where-does-ammonia-come-from

## Summary

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss a week of hardware hacks, highlighting Lucas Lucid’s low-cost VR glove using servos and strings, Jean Thomas’s Arduino core for x86 bare-metal programming, and Willem Melching’s ECU hacking of a 2010 VW Golf for autonomous driving. They also cover Jim G’s servo plotter using shoelaces, a 3D-printed wind sensor, and long-form articles on the Haber-Bosch ammonia process and automotive NVH engineering.

## Chapters

- [0:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=1) Introduction: ISS Funding and Canon DRM
- [6:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=364) What's That Sound: Sewing Machine
- [6:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=387) Lucas Lucid VR Glove: Servos and Strings
- [13:44](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=824) Jean Thomas: Arduino Core for x86
- [19:55](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=1195) Jim G’s Servo Plotter and Boba Fett
- [27:44](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=1664) 3D Printed Wind Sensor and VW Golf ECU Hacking
- [40:49](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=2449) Quick Hacks: Hit Clips, Tent Heater, Atari Punk Console
- [48:29](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-14-ep-151-the-hackiest-vr-glove-plotting-boba-fett-with-shoelaces-ecu-hacking-and-w#t=2909) Haber-Bosch Ammonia and Automotive NVH Articles

## Topics

- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)
- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Mechanical engineering](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/mechanical-engineering)
- [Sensors & measurement in products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sensors)
- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)
- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Lucas Lucid (other)
- Canon (company)
- comma AI (company)
- GeoHot (other)
- VW Golf (product)
- Haber-Bosch (other)
- Monash process (other)

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