I understand where you're coming from dude, money is always tight.
Hak5 has evolved over the years from the early days of simple keyboard repainting mods and installing a 12v cigarette socket into your pc to Bash Bunny, Wifi Pineapple and the like.
As part of this evolution it's natural for them to do shows on all the cool stuff they're working on, now that they have direct involvement in the development side of things.
But hey, I'd also love to see some low budget hacks and hardware as a segment one day, that'd be pretty cool.
Until then I tend to follow Seytonic on his youtube channel, he does a lot of cheap hardware hacks and such.
So I've just added that to my "stuff to watch" list. :)