Hardware Podcasts

Ep 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog

Hackaday Podcast · 9 Jan 2026 · 50m · Episode 352

What this episode covers

Hosts Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos review a week of hardware hacks, including Plasmatron X’s Schlieren imaging setup for visualizing ultrasound, Teddy Warner’s receipt-printing device for capturing apartment banter, and D-Ball Psalm’s method for painting images onto floppy disks. They also discuss device liberation efforts for Qingping air monitors and Amazon Echo Shows, benchmarking Windows performance on old hardware, and the history of mechanical time clocks.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Products
Qingping, Amazon Echo Show
Chips
Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 5, ATtiny 85, RP2040
Also
Plasmatron X, Schlieren, Lineage OS, D-Ball Psalm, Windows 11, Patrick Gillespie, Maya Posh, Willard Legrand Bundy, Daniel M. Cooper

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