Jenny List

Things Jenny Says on Podcasts

Contributing editor and European correspondent at Hackaday. Trained as an electronic engineer and spent twenty years in publishing before returning to electronics, with a focus on radio, textiles and costume, and classic cars. Joins Elliot Williams each week on the Hackaday Podcast to walk through the week's hacks, and has appeared as a guest on Command Line Heroes.

Where to Find Them

Jenny List hosts Hackaday Podcast . They have also been a guest on Command Line Heroes .

Recently: “Ep 393: Epaper, Tamagotchi Hacks, and Supercon Talks Galore” on Hackaday Podcast (October 2026); “Hackaday Podcast Ep 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays and Jenny Visits a Blast Furnace” on Hackaday Podcast (October 2026); “Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation” on Hackaday Podcast (September 2026); “Ep 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs” on Hackaday Podcast (August 2026); “Ep 377: Parallel Pixels, Wiggly Consoles, and Seven Segments” on Hackaday Podcast (July 2026); “Ep 373: GPS, Danger In Space, and Robby the Robot” on Hackaday Podcast (June 2026).

What They Said

“A friend of mine worked for a British catalog shop during that period in the 90s. And they had to put up a notice because people would bring back their Tamagotchis for a refund after they died. They had to put up a notice… pointing out that somewhere in the battery compartment was a reset button.” — Jenny List, Hackaday Podcast

The hosts were reminiscing about the history of Tamagotchi hacking, from the original units to the new Tamagotchi Paradise. Jenny adds a story about a shop getting returns of dead virtual pets.

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Jenny List

Impressive. Wow. Genuinely impressive.

Elliot Williams

…able to dig up a data sheet that let her figure out how to write to one of the ports and then was able to execute her own code. And then so she loaded ROM dumper code, got it out the old-fashioned way. Absolutely lovely. And who knew that was going to like kick off a decade of Tamagotchi Hacks,? A

Jenny List

friend of mine worked for a British catalog shop during that period in the 90s. And they had to put up a notice because people would bring back their Tamagotchis for a refund after they died. They had to put up a notice, notice pointing out that somewhere in the battery compartment was a reset button.

Elliot Williams

Nice. One of the neighbor kids was so sad when his Tamagotchi died. His mom was like, you know, trying to convince him that one of the goals of the game was to get it to be able to fly. Oh, it's dead. It's an angel. It gets wings when you kill it. But he was like so stoked that he got it to fly.

Jenny List

My final hack today comes from NKT Builds. It's a classic piece of pushing the boundaries of radio, which always tickles my interest. What they've done is they've got a Bluetooth tag and a Bluetooth tag reader. The snag is those two are 12 kilometers apart. Obviously, this isn't a standard…

Elliot Williams

well, they mentioned this in the video. You can't do it legally with that antenna. Yeah,

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