# Ep 237: Dancing Raisins, Coding on Apples, and a Salad Spinner Mouse

- Show: [Hackaday Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast)
- Published: 2023-09-23
- Length: 43m
- Episode: 237
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse
- Listen: https://hackaday.libsyn.com/ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse

## Summary

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos discuss a variety of hardware hacks, including a scientific analysis of dancing raisins, the properties of Nitinol for airless tires, and a project preserving court records from floppy disks using Grease Weasel. They also cover the mechanics of rocker bogie suspensions used in planetary rovers and the history of Apple's attempts to make coding accessible to non-programmers.

## Chapters

- [0:02](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=2) Introduction and Halloween Hackfest
- [5:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=309) What's That Sound: MRI Machine
- [8:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=494) Apple's History of Scripting Languages
- [14:20](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=860) Science of Dancing Raisins and Nitinol
- [21:54](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=1314) Floppy Disk Data Recovery and Stenography
- [27:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=1638) Quick Hacks: Salad Spinner Mouse and Nixie Tubes
- [32:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=1920) Rocker Bogie Suspension Mechanics
- [39:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-09-23-ep-237-dancing-raisins-coding-on-apples-and-a-salad-spinner-mouse#t=2344) Fountain Pens vs. Ballpoints

## Topics

- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)
- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Arduino (company)
- DigiKey (company)
- Apple (company)
- HyperCard (product)
- AppleScript (product)
- Swift Playgrounds (product)
- Shortcuts (product)
- Nitinol (material)
- Grease Weasel (tool)
- PDP-11 (chip)
- Bloop Museum (company)
- Plover (other)
- Nixie tubes (product)
- Dalibor Varney (other)
- Roger Chang (other)
- Soppy Robot (product)
- JPL Open Source Rover (product)

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- [004 - 0x0FF the Rails](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/unnamed-reverse-engineering-podcast/2017-10-13-004-0x0ff-the-rails) (Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast)
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