# Productive Pi Hacks, Amazing Arduino Inventions, New Hardware Galore!

- Show: [The Electromaker Show](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show)
- Published: 2023-07-27
- Length: 32m
- Episode: 116
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2023-07-27-productive-pi-hacks-amazing-arduino-inventions-new-hardware-galore
- Listen: https://electromaker.libsyn.com/productive-pi-hacks-amazing-arduino-inventions-new-hardware-galore

## Summary

The host of The Electromaker Show reviews several maker projects, including Matthias Wandel’s RP2040-based microwave current sensor and Alisdair Allan’s hack of an IKEA Vindriktning air quality monitor using a Raspberry Pi Pico W. The episode also highlights Arduino Nano projects like cardboard laser tag guns and a persistence-of-vision CD display, before covering new hardware such as the GGTag e-ink RFID device, the Raspberry Breadstick, and the Orange Pi Zero 3.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2023-07-27-productive-pi-hacks-amazing-arduino-inventions-new-hardware-galore#t=0) Introduction and Matthias Wandel's Microwave Hack

## Topics

- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)
- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)
- [Crowdfunding & preorders](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/crowdfunding)
- [Maker community & events](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/maker-community)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Matthias Wandel (other)
- Raspberry Pi Pico (product)
- RP2040 (chip)
- Alisdair Allan (other)
- IKEA Vindriktning (product)
- Raspberry Pi Pico W (product)
- BMP 280 (chip)
- Arduino Nano (product)
- Arduino Nicla Sense ME (product)
- GGTag (product)
- Flipper Zero (product)
- Raspberry Breadstick (product)
- Mango Pi RISC-V Router (product)
- Orange Pi Zero 3 (product)
- Allwinner H618 (chip)

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- [Ep102: Raspberry Pi Microcontroller, Microphone Killswitch, and a 45-Degree 3D-Printer](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2021-01-22-ep102-raspberry-pi-microcontroller-microphone-killswitch-and-a-45-degree-3d-prin) (Hackaday Podcast)
- [Ep 150: Blackberry Runs Out of Juice, NODE has your pinouts, Rats learn DOOM, and 2021 is Done](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2022-01-07-ep-150-blackberry-runs-out-of-juice-node-has-your-pinouts-rats-learn-doom-and-20) (Hackaday Podcast)
- [Ep 221: The Future of the Raspberry Pi, Sniffing a Toothbrush, Your Tactical Tool Threshold](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-06-02-ep-221-the-future-of-the-raspberry-pi-sniffing-a-toothbrush-your-tactical-tool-t) (Hackaday Podcast)
- [Ep 257: The Hacks and Just the Hacks](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2024-02-14-ep-257-the-hacks-and-just-the-hacks) (Hackaday Podcast)
- [Ep 134: Hackers Camping, Metal Detecting, 360o Hearing, and Pocket Computing](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2021-09-03-ep-134-hackers-camping-metal-detecting-360o-hearing-and-pocket-computing) (Hackaday Podcast)

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