Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they cover their favorite hacks and stories from the week. The episode kicks off with some updates about Hackaday Europe and the recently announced Green Power contest, as well as the proposal of a new feature of the podcast where listeners are invited to send in their questions and comments. After the housekeeping is out of the way, the discussion will go from spoofing traffic light control signals and the line between desktop computers and smartphones, all the way to homebrew e-readers and writing code with chocolate candies. You’ll hear about molding replacement transparent parts, a collection of fantastic tutorials on hardware hacking and reverse engineering, and the recent fireball that lit up the skies over Germany. The episode wraps up with a fascinating look at how the developer of Pokemon Go is monetizing the in-game efforts of millions of players.
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Spoofing An Emergency Traffic Preemption Signal
- Hands On With Creality’s New M1 Filament Maker
- DIY 3D Pen Is Born To Weld
- Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?
- Power Control For A Busy Workbench
- Calculator Case To Scratch-Built Pocket E-Reader
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Technically, you don’t see many if any “banking apps” on your desktop computer exactly for the reason that the bank can’t trust that the app wasn’t hacked. You browse to their website and the application runs on the server side. It limits the damage because the bank can say “we have no desktop PC app, don’t trust anyone who tells you otherwise. We never demand you to install anything.”.
Still, every now and then I read news about people who got scammed and saw their money disappear literally in front of their eyes. The banks have to send out regular reminders not to browse to their web site through google search results, because people just type the bank’s name in the search bar and click the first link. One typo and you’re on the scammers’ web page.
The phone app solves both problems: people don’t install apps from random websites by default on a phone so the system is less likely to be compromised, and they don’t access their online bank through a website but through an app that comes from a trusted source, secured by Knox or something, so the scammers have double the difficulty to trick someone. Hence they call you and try to get you on a PC to install the fake banking app…
Elliot Is not a Windows 11 user the walls are growing around that garden, rapidly. I can see the day soon when all apps on Windows need microslop certification. but why would you need apps if you have AI?
On printing
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-multi-material-3d-industrial-applications.html