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Sunday, October 18, 2026
- MediaTek Wi-Fi Adapter Chip Gets Two Independent SDR Drivers
- M5Stack PaperDIY Kits Pair ESP32-S3 with 4.7-Inch E-Paper Display
- Seeed Studio Launches XIAO IPS Display Series with ESP32-S3 or nRF52840
- SolidCraft Brings Open Source Parametric CAD to Desktop, Browser and AI Agents
- Maker Builds Tiny Drone That Flies on a Single Propeller
- Nature Study Finds Plastics Generate Reactive Hydroxyl Radicals in Water
- Dollhouse Arcade Cabinet Streams DOS Games Over Wi-Fi
- Oldputer Pairs Old E-Ink Display with Retro Computer Styling
- Chronova Engineering Builds Reciprocating Sharpener for Concave Pencil Tips
Saturday, October 17, 2026
- Open-Source Firmware Turns Wi-Fi 7 Router Into 320 MSps SDR Receiver
- Xerxes Pi 2026 and Xerxes Nano Carrier Boards Launch on Kickstarter
- Year-Long Burial Test Finds 3D-Printed PLA Does Not Compost
- iFixit Gives Fairbuds 2 a 10/10 Repairability Score After Teardown
- TAKTO Open-Source Hand Tracker Uses Magnetic Encoders and Actuators
- Braino Turns the Cheap Yellow Display Into an Offline Learning Device for Kids
- First-Time Badge Maker Ships 1,750 Working Units for Canadian Hackathon
- RP2040-Zero Powers a Cheap DIY Gamepad with a 3D-Printed Case
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- Prusa Core One+ INDX Multi-Extruder Upgrade Faces Calibration and Filament Complaints
- Facebook Releases Muse Gadgets SDK for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi/Linux Devices
- Gregory Price of Meta Presents CRAM Compressed-Memory Proposal at Linux Plumbers
- Open-Source OSIRIS Firmware Targets Dead Onkyo Receivers with Failed D830 Chips
- Tilefinch Brings a Modern Web Browser to the PlayStation Portable
- Developer Turns Gemtek W1700K WiFi 7 Router Into a Software-Defined Radio Receiver
- Microchip Launches MTCH3380P and MTCH3240P Capacitive Touch Controllers
- 1551-rePico Emulates Commodore 1551 Drive Hardware with a Raspberry Pi Pico
- Raspberry Pi Profiles Educator Bringing Computing to Rural Schools in Argentina
Monday, October 12, 2026
- Littelfuse Announces Retirement of the eZ80 and Its Other Microcontroller Lines
- Meta Releases Muse Gadgets SDK for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Devices
- Wireless-Tag Pairs ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C5 on a 4.3-Inch Touch Display Devkit
- Spanish Museum Unveils Cray-1 Replica Built From 30 Vintage Mac Minis
- Nokia 3310 Game Jam Entry Gets a Custom Raspberry Pi Pico Board
- Maker Tours a 1994 DEC AlphaServer 2100 Picked Up at VCF Midwest
- Used LTO-5 Tapes Offer Homelab Storage at About $2 Per TB
Sunday, October 11, 2026
- Valve Publishes Hardware and CAD Reference for Steam Frame VR Headset
- Radxa Dragon Q8B Triples Raspberry Pi 5 Multi-Core Score in Benchmarks
- Adafruit Tests AI Math Papers to Squeeze Bytes From CircuitPython
- 3D-Printed Jet Turbine RC Aircraft Takes Flight in Bid for Speed Record
- GuardianShell Uses Arduino UNO Q to Track and Deter Wildlife Offline
- PixelFonts Packs More Text Onto Low-Resolution Displays
- Maker Restores a Battery-Damaged Casio Altimeter Watch
Saturday, October 10, 2026
- M5Stack ToughC5 Brings Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee and Thread to a Weatherproof Controller
- ESP32-C3 DNS Ad Blocker Fits Up to 537,000 Domains in Flash
- Bricked Prusa Printer Becomes a Syringe-Based Embedded 3D Printer
- Super Mario 64 Gets a Port to the Microsoft Zune HD
- NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop Gets a Raspberry Pi and a Modern Screen
- IKEA's Kortlinje Clock Offers a Hackable LED Matrix
- Two-Part H-Shifter for Racing Sims Uses a Joystick and Arduino Pro Micro
Friday, October 9, 2026
- Sipeed Opens Kickstarter for SLogic32U3, a 1.4GS/s USB 3.2 Logic Analyzer
- Micron Strike Vote in Taiwan Could Push Maker Hardware Prices Higher
- Raspberry Pi Uses Its Own Boards and Home Assistant to Cut Headquarters Energy Use
- Researchers Build a Self-Powered Door Sensor From Ground Garlic Peel
- ESP32-S3 Game Console Hidden Inside a TV Antenna Plug Plays DOOM
- Maker Turns a Run-Over Samsung Galaxy S23 Into a Gaming PC
- Maker Builds an 80s-Style Bluetooth Handset to Escape His Smartphone
- Amazon Removes Alexa Voice Control of Echo Aux Input
Thursday, October 8, 2026
- Arduino Reports 270,000 UNO Q Boards Shipped in First Year
- Q8botOne Palm-Sized Open-Source Quadruped Robot Launches on Crowd Supply
- Efinix Sapphire RV64 Brings Configurable 64-Bit RISC-V Soft Cores to Its FPGAs
- RP2350 Converter Lets Old TTL RGB Video Cards Drive DVI Displays
- ESP32-S3 AM Transmitter Keeps Vintage Tube Radios Playing
- Repair Shop Revives Two Costly Registered DDR5 Server Memory Sticks
- Microtari Go Turns a Miniature Atari 2600 Into a CRT Handheld
- RNDS-Stream Lets the 2008 Nintendo DSi Play Games Streamed From a Linux PC
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
- Raspberry Pi Desktop Returns for PC and Mac on 64-Bit Debian Trixie
- DSPi Firmware Turns RP2040 and RP2350 Boards Into USB DSP Sound Cards
- Dr. PD Brings Open-Source USB-C Power Delivery Analysis Up to 240 W
- Guide Shows How an ESP32 Can Serve as a Linux SBC's WiFi and Bluetooth Card
- OpenTMS Publishes an Open-Source Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Design
- B.L.O.O.M. Cyberdeck Packs an Arduino UNO Q Into a Train Case for Fieldwork
- SmallTV Desk Gadget Hacked to Show Custom Images Without New Firmware
- Commodore 64 Keyboard Font Traced From Photos and Released as a Vector Font
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
- 3D-Printed PLA Filter Removes Up to 90% of Microplastics From Water
- Flashforge Launches VDS Four-Spool Filament Dryer with Creator 5 Integration
- SecurePair Library Lets Two ESP32 Boards Talk Through a Single LED
- FPGA Chronicles Moves the Tang Nano 20K to the Open-Source APIO Toolchain
- Yeah Hand Brings a Low-Cost, Tendon-Driven Robot Hand to Makers
- The Mach Initiative Targets Mach 0.8 with 3D-Printed Kingchaser Jet
- XIMEA Unveils Miniature USB 3.0 Time-of-Flight Camera Based on Sony IMX556
Monday, October 5, 2026
- DEBIX M8391-01 Industrial SBC Packs MediaTek Genio 720 with 9 TOPS NPU
- Geekworm UPS Scap 5V5A Is a Supercapacitor UPS HAT for Raspberry Pi 5
- AVR Laptop Pushes the Limits of 8-Bit Computing with ATmega2560
- Interactive Video Games Run From VHS Tapes Using an FPGA and RP2350
- Arduino Details Six Linux Applications Running on the UNO Q Board
- Q-Switch Upgrade Takes a Benchtop Laser to Megawatt Peak Power
- Thoreau BASIC Updates GW-BASIC for Modern 64-Bit PCs
Sunday, October 4, 2026
- ESP-SDR Firmware Turns ESP32 Chips Into 2.4/5 GHz Software-Defined Radio Receivers
- Strata Runs a 125-Billion-Parameter LLM on a Gaming PC
- BlobJump Turns a Belt Into a Two-Player Game Controller
- PS2 and Xbox 1 Emulators Arrive for Jailbroken PS5 Consoles
- Reverse-Engineered AMT630A Chip Brings Custom Graphics to Cheap Composite Monitors
- Soda Can Aluminum Becomes a DIY Solder Paste Stencil
- Sebastian Lague Plots the Moon, Mars and Earth with a Custom Pen Plotter
- Vectron65 Plus Adds a Second 6502 and VGA Graphics to a Homebrew Computer
Saturday, October 3, 2026
- Milen Builds a Tiny Internet Radio Around an ESP32-C3
- Homebrew 68008 Computer Runs CP/M68K with Three ICs
- PIC18F67K40 Busy Board Runs on Three AAA Batteries
- Vibrating Flexible Materials Stick to Ceilings Without Contact
- Lunar Lander Ported to 1959 PDP-1 for Retrocomputing Challenge
- Avaota F2 RISC-V Board Targets AI Cameras with PTZ Support
- UP Xtreme Panther Lake Mini PC Adds AirJet Solid-State Cooling
Friday, October 2, 2026
- Raspberry Pi Launches $30 Smart Display Module for Compute Module 5
- LakeShark Firmware Turns LilyGO T-Display P4 Into a Handheld SDR Scanner
- SDR– Brings Patch-Cable Routing to Software-Defined Radio
- Game Boy Test Lab Cartridge Diagnoses Original Hardware
- ESP32-C3 Boards Bring Matter Support to Elgato Key Lights
- Arduino UNO Q Powers an Offline LLM for a Vintage Terminal
- OpenSCAD Used to Plan a Vertical Garden
- Drum Machina Go! Adds Four-Channel Sequencing to Game Boy
Thursday, October 1, 2026
- Apple's New AirPods Earn a 2/10 iFixit Repairability Score With a Socketed Battery
- $30 Compute Module 5 Carrier Board Follows Intel SDM-L Spec for Signage and Kiosks
- Waveshare ESP32-C5 Dev Kit Adds 3.5-Inch Touch LCD, Optional Camera and Battery
- LakeShark Firmware Turns LilyGO T-Display P4 Into a Handheld SDR Scanner
- SDR– Brings Modular-Synth Patch Cables to Software-Defined Radio
- Open-Source Science Tricorder Cyberdeck Packs Spectrometer, Thermal and Magnetic Cameras
- University of Toronto Students Build Pogo-Stick Quadcopter Robot With Compliant Foot
- DIY Retro Game Console Loads Games From CDs on an Intel N150
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- A Simple Solution For Streamlining Battery Recycling
- Designing A Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator
- OpenArm 2.0 — Open-Source 7-DOF Robot Arm with QDD Joints
- Metal Gear Solid Moves From PlayStation To ESP32
- Electromechanical TV Goes 3D With This Light-field Display
- Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
- The Deep Magic Of 3D Graphics Perspective
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- Open-Source Humanoid Arm OpenArm Launches for Physical AI Research
- DIY SAR Imaging Drone Gains Interferometric Imaging and RTK GPS
- Hackaday Launches FPGA Tutorial Series Around Affordable Tang Nano 20K
- CFD Study Finds Conventional Propellers Beat Toroidal Designs on Efficiency
- Megatexture Mipmapping Demo Runs on ESP32-S3 Using Jet Rendering Engine
- New Manufacturing Process Makes MXene 2D Materials Easier to Produce
- Metal Gear Solid Ported to ESP32-S3 Using Open Decompilation Project
Monday, September 28, 2026
- Enormous Fluid Simulation Runs in Real Time on Flip-Dot Display
- Galileo’s Encrypted Authentication Signal Defeats GPS Spoofing
- Maker Repurposes Agricultural Center-Pivot Irrigation Rig as Autonomous Lawn Mower
- Apple’s Mikey Headset Remote Chip Fully Reverse Engineered
- Ken Shirriff Team Cracks the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Floating-Point Algorithm
- Blue Origin Wins $700M NASA Contract for Next-Generation Mars Telecommunications Network
- Maker Faire Bay Area 2026 Celebrates 20th Anniversary with 300+ Exhibits
Sunday, September 27, 2026
- A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank
- Easy Ways To Sink A Hardware Startup
- Self-Repairing Conductive Material From Liquid Metal
- Cheap Yellow Display Dreams Of PDA
- A Modular Macro Keypad
- You Can Make A Microprocessor That’s All Your Own
- Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid
- Maker Faire Bay Area 2026
Saturday, September 26, 2026
- Five Easy Ways to Sink Your Hardware Startup
- Joy and Mayhem at Maker Faire Bay Area's 20th Anniversary Opening Day
- A Robot Party in the Foundry at Maker Faire Bay Area
- Welcome to the Light: Inside the Maker Faire Dark Room
- AiboJam: Sony's Desktop Aibo Lives Again on a $40 Fruit Jam
- 30 ATtiny412 Chips Recreate D. H. Lehmer's 1928 Number-Sieve Machine
- Sesame: The Open-Source Quadruped Built for Other Makers to Build
Friday, September 25, 2026
- FPGA For All — CERN Releases “colibri” VHDL Library
- Standalone DJ System Runs On ESP32
- Handheld Scanner Is A Radio Multi-tool
- A 7-Segment Clock Built With No Digital Electronics
- What Should Pine64 Build With Microcontrollers?
- Commodore 128 Becomes Marine Vessel Tracker
- Solar Powered Traffic Monitoring
Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Reconstructing Device Firmware From SPI Reads
- Forget Trees, Add Fins To Your 3D Prints Instead
- 2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing Our First Round Of Speakers
- Audio Spectrum Analyzer On An ESP32 Display Board
- A Tiny Toy Synth For Smaller Computers
- CyboPal ONE: AI-Powered 6-DOF Robotic Terminal
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- KryonOS Brings JavaScript Runtime and App Store to ESP32
- Maker Recreates Myst on the Atari 2600 Using E7 Bank Switching
- TN Deck Crams Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero Into an Altoids Tin
- Sitina B220M: Open-Source 22-Megapixel Digital Back for Mamiya Medium Format
- Raspberry Pi Firmware Update Locks Down Third-Party RAM Upgrades
- LeafBus: ESP32 Firmware Replaces Unsupported NanoLeaf Panel Controllers
- DIY Ground-Source Heat Pump Built From Dumpster-Dived Window Air Conditioner
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
- TN Deck Packs a Complete Cyberdeck Inside an Altoids Tin
- RP2350 Overclocked to 372 MHz Achieves First 1080p DVI Output
- Modified Citi Bike Adjusts Pedal Resistance to Neighborhood Rent Burden
- RC2014 Z80 Retrocomputer Gets a Vintage Alphacom Printer Terminal
- Gearotons M17 Is an Open-Source NEMA-17 Servomotor with Integrated Driver and Encoder
- Nordic Semiconductor Announces nRF54LC10A Ultra-Low-Power BLE and 802.15.4 SoC
- 3D-Printed Radial Impellers Bring Quieter Flight Profile to DIY Quadcopters
Monday, September 21, 2026
- FCC ISM Rules May Shatter LoRa Mesh Communities
- Teaching A Robot Hand To Walk
- Making A Copper-Oxide Photodetector From Scratch
- The Concertina Goes Electronic
- Making A Digital Music Player For Cassette Decks
- Reviving TEMPEST Attacks With An Injected Signal
Sunday, September 20, 2026
- Teaching A Robot Hand To Walk
- Coreboot Hikes The Bay Trail To DRAM Initialization
- Laser Your Way Into Debug Mode On The RP2350
- A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld
- Teardown And Repair Of An Insoma Water Timer
- No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs On A GPU-less Teenaged Server
- JLC Puts AI-Assisted Board Design In Files You Can Read, Review, And Edit
Saturday, September 19, 2026
- Emulating Memory Access: How Hard Can It Be?
- Meta Portal Given New Life As Extended Display
- The Concertina Goes Electronic
- TV Audio Tube Makes A Transceiver
- Brain Control Your Appliance, Sort Of
- More Room to Matter? Phrozen's 16K Resin Printer Is 2.5x Bigger, Not Sharper
- Making A Digital Music Player For Cassette Decks
- On Chip Debug For (Some) MicroPython
- Reconstructing A Pin On A Pin Grid Array Package
Friday, September 18, 2026
- FCC ISM Rules May Shatter LoRa Mesh Communities
- Eye-D Badge Catches Your Attention
- 3D Printing A Clock Fit For A Pope
- Your CYD Is Now A Telly
- An Enhanced Game Boy Advance
- Why Wave Energy Is The Final Frontier Of Renewable Energy
- Keep Your Back Cool While Others Melt
Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Nickm324 turns Cheap Yellow Display into mini television with SD card channels
- Flock Safety cameras suffer critical security flaws in outdated operating system
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
- Running Linux 6.11 on the ESP32-S3 With a Few Tweaks
- Bare Metal Made Easy: Minimacy Language Runs on RP2350 Without an OS
- Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, All at Once
- Super-Accurate Radio Clock Built Around a Tiny ATtiny814
- Round AMOLED Badge Packs Clock, Games, Air Mouse and Liquid Simulation
- Handy Brings Local, Privacy-First Speech Recognition to Linux
- Model Your CNC Cabinet in Fusion 360 Before Buying Anything
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- CircuitPython Goes Turbo With Precompiled Functions
- Fixing A Ubiquiti 16-Port PoE Switch With An Extra Hole
- Hackaday Europe 2026: Space Oddities
- An Open Heart Rate Monitor
- A UPS For Your Pi That's A Little Different
- Writing An ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts
- Turn Arduino UNO Q Into Your Local 3D Printing Watchdog
- The First Open Healthware Certifications Are In
Monday, September 14, 2026
- CircuitPython Gets Native-Speed Precompiled Functions via Viper Mode
- OSHintosh Brings the Macintosh 512k Back as Open-Source Hardware
- Hackaday 2026 Challenge Entry Builds a 16-Bit CPU Entirely from Relays
- tiny386 x86 Emulator (FRANK) Ported to the RP2350 Microcontroller
- Polymaker Launches LayerHub for Sharing 3D Printer Filament Profiles
- JetKVM Mini Cuts Cost by Replacing Linux with an ESP32-P4X
- Arduino VENTUNO Q Reference Design Targets Autonomous Mobile Robots
Sunday, September 13, 2026
- Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks The Sound Barrier
- 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer
- This Mac Is Open Source Hardware
- Supercon Is Nigh!
- Making An Air-Powered Circular Saw With LEGO
- Spin FV-1 Emulator Simplifies Sound Pedal Development
- Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply
- M5Stack Module13.2 LoRa-1262 Expansion Board Integrates Stamp LoRa-1262 Module
Saturday, September 12, 2026
- Looking At A TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive From 1983
- All The Best Computers Boot To Python
- Trying To Fix A Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch
- Making A Neo Nuvistor Project In 2026
- Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game
- Arduino RDA5807M FM Stereo Radio With Nokia 5110 Display
- I Built a Modular Solar Inverter: One Battery, Multiple Use
- Ready, Set, Make: 5 Inaugural September Maker Faires
Friday, September 11, 2026
- ESP32 Hack Turns E-Ink Display Into a Network Printer
- Lensless Raspberry Pi Camera Achieves 3D Imaging With Scotch Tape and Math
- Arduino Releases Open-Source UNO Media Carrier Board With MIPI Camera and Display Connectors
- Anycubic Software 2.0 Brings Toggleable Spaghetti Detection and Third-Party Filament Support
- Maker Tests Custom Nozzle Geometries to Push FDM Printing Past Its Flowrate Ceiling
- Makers Build Functional Retro Console Inside a Hand-Soldered Brass Circuit Sculpture
- Classic Tomb Raider Now Running on an Espressif ESP32-P4 Microcontroller
Thursday, September 10, 2026
- Your E-ink Display Just Became a Wireless Printer
- Paper Sensors That Fold Themselves Into Wearables
- 3D-Printable Color Indicators That Change With Every Angle
- GNU Radio Companion Is Now a Tab in Your Browser
- FREE-WILi 2 Packs RP2350, ESP32-C5, FPGA, and Linux Into One Pocket Tool
- Arduino's Media Carrier Breaks Out Cameras, Display, and Audio for UNO Q
- Waveshare Fits ESP32-C5 Wi-Fi 6 Into the Raspberry Pi Pico Shell
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
- Fixing A 1990s LEGO Electric Train Speed Regulator
- Hackaday Europe 2026: Outdoors With Robots
- Sick Of Wayland Vs. Xorg? How About GEM?
- Creality Debuts Five New Printers and K3 Toolchanger at IFA Berlin 2026
- A Vacuum Tube Computer For The Home
- New Guide: Adafruit Monster Eyes
- One Bit Sound With The ZX Spectrum
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
- Old iPad Keyboard Makes for a Modern Netbook
- ESP32-P4 Powers Video Alarm Clock
- A Vacuum Tube Computer for the Home
- XIAO SAMD21 Plus and RP2040 Plus Get Extra GPIO and Battery Management
- FREE-WILi 2 Open-Hardware Multitool Packs Dual RP2350, FPGA, and Linux
- CircuitPython Show Episode 64 Replays CircuitPython Day 2026 Livestream
Monday, September 7, 2026
- Printing Micron-Scale Benchies With Resin and Turmeric
- 3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling Without Electricity
- Tracefinity: Photograph a Tool, Generate a Custom Gridfinity Bin
- Hackaday Links: Community Revives Spotify Car Thing With Linux
- Is This the Year of the Linux Television?
- Seeed Studio Releases XIAO SAMD21 Plus and RP2040 Plus With USB-C
- DIY ESP32-P4 Weather Station and Air Quality Monitor for Around $185
- Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work?
- Google Pixel Watch 5 Earns 9/10 iFixit Repairability Score
Sunday, September 6, 2026
- Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work?
- Running Generative AI On An RP2350
- Take Tool Photo, Generate Custom Gridfinity Bin
- Free Your Rotary Telephone From Its Wire
- Pixel Watch 5 Demonstrates Good Repairability
Saturday, September 5, 2026
- The Birds Outside, Drawn For You Automatically
- 3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling
- Take Tool Photo, Generate Custom Gridfinity Bin
- Making A Pole Balance Itself With Propellers
- Repairing Traces On A Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong
- WildGuard: Off-Grid Edge AI Wildlife Monitoring
- OpenTrailPaper Transforms LILYGO T5 E-Paper S3 Pro Into DIY Bike Computer
Friday, September 4, 2026
- The Birds Outside, Drawn For You Automatically
- Build Retro Stereo Amplifier with Toshiba TA8211AH and ESP32
- Arduino Core on Zephyr 1.0.0 is here!
- From A Ten-Line Script To A Real Utility With Codex
- Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
- Building an 18-DOF Hexapod: A 20-Year Dream Finally Walking
- Corners Lifting On 3D Prints? Guide Gives Prevention Tips
- Miniaturized, Working Replica Of Vintage Leslie Speaker
- Rescuing A Rescue Device With A DIY Battery Pack
- Namib Desert Field Test Reveals Corrosion Challenge for Electrostatic Fog Harvester
- Switch Mod Fixes Hall Effect Sensor Problem in Citroën Door Logo Projector
- FPGA Board Brings HDMI Output to TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with Audio over Single Cable
Thursday, September 3, 2026
- Namib Desert Field Test Reveals Corrosion Challenge for Electrostatic Fog Harvester
- Switch Mod Fixes Hall Effect Sensor Problem in Citroën Door Logo Projector
- FPGA Board Brings HDMI Output to TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with Audio over Single Cable
- 1970s Sears Calculator Doubled Thermal Print Resolution by Physically Oscillating the Print Head
- ZX81 16K RAM Pack Teardown Reveals 4116 DRAM Circuitry and Self-Oscillating Power Supply
- Reverse Polish Notation Calculators Survive in 2026 via New Hardware, DIY Builds, and Software
- ESP32-P4 Weather Station Monitors PM2.5, NOx, VOC, CO2 and Presence via 24 GHz Radar
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys and Game Consoles
- PS4 Optical Pickup Becomes a Nanometer-Resolution Skin Imager
- Crowdsourced Coil Whine Database Opens for Submissions
- Haiku OS R1 Beta 6 Arrives With Firefox Support and 530+ Fixes
- CNC-Driven Flip Disc Display Accepts Browser-Queued Images
- Agent Fingers Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Into an AI-Controlled Debug Tool
- SSH Serial Bridge Puts UART and USB Serial Access Over Wi-Fi
- Edge AI Pull-Up Counter Runs YOLO Pose on the RK3576 Without Cloud
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- Open Source Desk Lamp Reimagines Dyson's Balancing Design
- Maker Tricks Air Conditioner Into Cooling Amid Off-Season Temperatures
- xTool M2 Review: All-in-One Laser Cutter and Engraver with Optional Full-Color Print
- Arduboy CHGame Rev0 Brings RISC-V and Full Color to a $39 Developer Kit
- DIY Instant Camera Uses Reusable E Ink Cartridges in Place of Film
- MIT and Sumitomo Develop Intuitive World-Space Interface for Excavator Control
- YouTuber Builds Wireless Mountain Bike Brakes Complete with Subscription Service
- P.A.R. Flip-Squisk Display Uses a Single Robot to Flip 666 Square Pixels
- ARK Just A Pi: NDAA-Compliant Raspberry Pi CM5 Carrier Board for Drones and Robots
Monday, August 31, 2026
- NES Gets an Optical Data Storage Add-On
- Headless Game Boy Emulator Runs Entirely Through a Browser
- Berkeley Humanoid Lite Puts Open-Source Robotics Under $5,000
- Browser Tool Turns Your Monitor Into a VHF Transmitter
- DOOM's Opening Theme Recreated in Pure 555-Timer Hardware
- Wireless Brakes on a Fat Tire Bike Add ABS and Remote Control
- Dual Lasers on an FDM Printer Smooth Layer Lines Without Chemicals
Sunday, August 30, 2026
- Berm Peak Builds ESP32 Wireless Brakes With ABS for Fat-Tire Bike
- Motorized Planer Height Adjustment Brings CNC-Like Control to the Workshop
- Compact 3D-Printed PCB Vise Uses Under 70g of Leftover Filament
- Offline Wikipedia Browsing Arrives on the ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display
- German Designer Creates Fabric Pattern That Fools AI Person-Detection Systems
- Firehat Open-Source FireWire HAT Brings MiniDV Capture to Raspberry Pi 5
- Hackaday Addresses AI-Generated Code in Maker Projects: Human Hacks First
Saturday, August 29, 2026
- Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Launch $399 Microduck Biped Robot for Physical AI
- DOOM's Opening Track Recreated With Only 555 Timer ICs
- CircuitPython 10.3.0-rc.0 Released With New picogame Engine Module
- Casting Metal Engine Parts From Lost-PLA 3D Prints
- Pine64 Halts Linux Device Production as RAM and eMMC Prices Spike
- Miles-Long Panoramic Photos Captured With an Industrial Line-Scan Camera
- Failed SD Card Recovered After Shorted MLCC Capacitors Found Inside
Friday, August 28, 2026
- RAM And EMMC Prices Are So High, Pine64 Has Stopped Linux Device Production
- Microduck — A Duck-Like Biped Robot Designed for Physical AI Experimentation
- Panoramic Photography With A Linear Scanner
- Support Bath Enables An Epoxy Benchy
- Running Multiple Linux Kernels Without Hypervisor
- The Mactini: A Computer That Does Almost Nothing
- LUNYEE 3020 Nova Review — A Desktop CNC Router With 710W Spindle
Thursday, August 27, 2026
- PCBs With A Plot: Designing Circuit Boards as TTRPG Narrative Tools
- EU Packaging Rules Threaten Small Electronics Kit Sellers
- MIT Replaces Excavator Joysticks With Scale-Model Arm Controller
- Making LCD Displays Glow Like Classic Incandescent Indicator Lamps
- Anatomy of an SLA Resin Printing Disaster: A Post-Mortem
- Quest 1 VR Headset Receives Fully Unlocked Bootloader
- HomeMaster MiniPLC: ESP32 DIN-Rail Controller With ESPHome and Home Assistant
- Arduino Ventuno Q: $299 SBC Pairs Qualcomm AI Processor With STM32 Real-Time MCU
- Firehat Brings Open-Source FireWire DV Capture to Raspberry Pi 5
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- Arduino Marks Its 21st Birthday With the $299 Ventuno Q AI Single-Board Computer
- Firehat Brings Native FireWire DV Capture to the Raspberry Pi 5 via an Open-Source HAT
- QuestStack Tool Fully Unlocks the Meta Quest 1 Bootloader With a Single Web Visit
- Anatomy of an SLA Resin Printing Disaster: Build Plate Angles, Peeling Forces, and Cleanup
- Maker Builds a Pyrotechnic Igniter Powered by a Vintage Military Field Telephone Crank
- Skip the Supercomputer: Rheoscopic Fluid Made From Mica and Water Visualizes Flow for Free
- Governments Are Starting to Plan Switch-Off Dates for Broadcast Digital Television
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
- Making Better Rubies At Home
- Straight Talk On 3D Printing Footwear At Home
- 3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots The Sensation Of Touch
- Combining Photogrammetry Utilities Into A Simple GUI Tool
- The Casio F-91W As A Contactless Payment Device
Monday, August 24, 2026
- Home Fabricator Makes Functional Inorganic LEDs in Lab
- Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity Record Set With Cuprate Material
- Open-Source ExpressLRS Receivers Achieve Five-Kilometre Range
- AROS Amiga-Inspired OS Boots Bare-Metal on Raspberry Pi
- Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine Becomes Fully 3D-Printable
- Full-Scale Railway Pump Car Built From 3D-Printed Parts
- 555 Timer IC Powers Beat Frequency Oscillator for Radio Receivers
Sunday, August 23, 2026
- Open-Source ExpressLRS Receiver Reaches 5 km Through Forest
- 3D-Printed Camera Uses Rubber-Band Shutter for Variable Exposure Speed
- Sleeper E-Bike Hides Bafang Motor Behind Solenoid Pin Battery Display
- All-Analog Geiger Counter Uses J306β Tube and Single AA Battery
- 555 Timer IC Builds 455 kHz Beat Frequency Oscillator for Ham Radio
- Three Corroded, Bug-Infested WiiMotes Salvaged Into One Working Controller
- EmuTOS (Open-Source Atari TOS) Ported to Sega Mega CD, GEOS Port Underway
- EMF Camp 2026 Talk: Restoring a 1920s Foden Steam Lorry Found in a Field
- Bluetooth Shock Collar Reverse-Engineered to Punish Doomscrolling
Saturday, August 22, 2026
- 3D-printable thermoacoustic Stirling engine now fully available
- MakerWorld user shares Arduino Uno R3 and breadboard holder design
- Joseph DiGiovanni reverse-engineers Litter Robot 4 to enable local automations
Friday, August 21, 2026
- Everypin introduces PwrBlock 323 programmable power supply for test fixtures 2 sources
- Homebrew 68K Machine Features PCI Bus
- Miniaturized Atari 2600 console brings retro gaming to a smaller form factor
- Steam Controller Runs Zork Without A Computer
- Deskbuddy ESP32 dashboard displays time, weather, and notes
- Manufacturers blend PLLA to fix PLA filament’s notorious brittleness problem
Thursday, August 20, 2026
- Miniaturizing the Atari 2600 Console
- Homebrew 68K Machine Has a PCI Bus
- 3D Printering: Why Is My PLA So Brittle?
- Foldable OLED Displays and the Bane of Dust
- Samsung Printer Is the Next Frontier of Minecraft Servers
- Linux 7.2 Released: Cache Scheduling, Fair GPU Scheduler, USB4STREAM
- Why People Are Adding Apple Lightning Cables to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Boards
Tuesday, August 19, 2026
- Reverse Engineered Grill Controller Gets Open Firmware
- New material database and hot end improve 3D printing results
- Engineering student builds DIY remote controlled water gun robot
- Energizing vacuum-tube flip-flop module from 1948 IBM 604 system
Monday, August 17, 2026
- Runar Tenfjord releases an open STM32C5 dev board with Oberon-2 support 2 sources
- Ploopy’s open-source A+ Trackball launches August 19 at $99 CAD 2 sources
- Magmabow fits 300 MHz Cortex-M7 into Arduino Nano footprint with 200x more memory
- Snap-fit Raspberry Pi Pico case keeps sensors outside the electronics enclosure
- Additive chemistry turns ordinary PLA into some of 3D printing’s strangest filaments
- Wave overhangs let 3D printers span horizontal gaps without support structures
- Throaty Mumbo revives Nintendo’s 130,000-unit 1988 Famicom network modem
- AGI-64 lets Commodore 64 owners play Sierra’s classic adventure games for the first time
- Hackaday Europe 2026 brings open source hardware makers underground in Berlin
Monday, August 17, 2026
- Aalto University releases open source 6-DoF stylus for $155
- Laser Layers Create (Almost) Isotropicly Strong 3D Prints
- Open-source FM radio design eliminates manual tuning using TEA5767 chip
- Enthusiast revives 1988 Famicom Network System with 130,000 units sold
- New Wave Overhang Technique Prints Horizontal Structures Without Supports
- Snap-fit Raspberry Pi Pico Case Includes Sensor Cage for External Sensors
- Maker builds clock to keep Swatch’s failed 1998 Internet Time idea alive
Saturday, August 15, 2026
- Google team builds offline translator using Raspberry Pi 5
- ESP32 Music Sequencer Nails Y2K Aesthetic With Clear Case Design 2 sources
- ESP32 and Raspberry Pi scan for life signs in real life
- Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab
- Adafruit AS7341 10-Channel Light Sensor Breakout Detects Specific Wavelengths 2 sources
- Modular Arduino Workstation Adds ESP32 and Nano Brackets
- Low-tech buzzing game teaches simple circuits using recycled materials
Saturday, August 15, 2026
- MegCell Pulse: Twin 3D-Printed Guitar Robots Debut After Six-Year Build
- ETH Zurich Students Build Submersible Drone to Measure Ice Thickness
- Maker Automates Baby Bouncy Chair with Arduino Nano and Servo Motor
- Octopus 16: Open 16-Channel EEG Headset Enables Brain-Computer Interaction
- Maker Decrypts Flume Water Monitor Traffic with Man-in-the-Middle Relay
- ShieldFont Poisons AI Scrapers by Substituting Font Ligatures in Web Text
Friday, August 14, 2026
- Supercon Ten Tickets On Sale Now
- Holograms, From Your Plotter
- Bladerunners And The Mother Of Invention
- Removing Microplastics From Soil With Tumbling Magnetic Flakes
- The Chernobyl NPP And Forty Years Of Robots For High Radiation Environments
- Troubleshooting Video Delay On The Raspberry Pi
- Tearing Down A Cheap Digital Caliper
Thursday, August 13, 2026
- Apollo Automation's $40 ESPHome Starter Kit Makes Smart Home Building Accessible
- Hackaday Supercon 2026 Extends Call for Participation Deadline to August 26
- Chernobyl's Nuclear Legacy: Forty Years of Radiation-Hardened Robots
- Total Solar Eclipse August 12: Hackaday Rounds Up Webcam Feeds for Makers at Home
- Texas Instruments Ships Industry's First Commercially Available CAN XL Transceiver
- MIKROE's NECTO Studio Now Covers Half the World's MCU Variants at 10,000-Plus Count
- Forlinx AM62L32 Local EVM Brings TI's Low-Power Cortex-A53/M4F SoC to Developers
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- PewCB One Brings 1064 nm Laser PCB Fabrication to the Desktop for $5,000
- NXP FRDM-IMX95-PRO Debuts i.MX 95 in Compact 19 mm Package With 10GbE and 8 eTOPS NPU
- Makerfabs Nomad Terminal: ESP32-S3 Plus Multi-Band LoRa for Off-Grid Messaging and GNSS
- Which 3D Filament Burns Least? Maker's Muse Tests Six Materials With Direct Flame
- DOOM Runs on a 104-in-1 Handheld, Revealing a Hidden ARM Cortex-M33 Inside
- Titanic-Style Ship's Telegraphs Keep a Long-Distance Relationship in Sync via ESP32
- Dead Makita Battery Revived With a 20-Cent Thermistor After PocketOBI Diagnosis
- os8088: A Single-Floppy, Mac-Style GUI OS That Could Have Run on Your 1984 IBM PC
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
- PewCB One Laser-Ablation Desktop System Cuts PCB Prototyping to 30 Minutes
- The PiShot Packs a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Camera Module 3 Into a 3D-Printed Body
- Printed Japanese Cotton Meets Aircraft Composite Techniques in an RV Countertop Build
- Adafruit Designates August 21 as CircuitPython Day 2026
- Prusa CORE One ‘Nozzlegate’: Bondtech Nozzles Ship Surface-Hardened Instead of Through-Hardened
- Maker Catalogues UK Government GitHub Repositories Going Quietly Dark
- PyBLE Brings Wireless MicroPython Development to iPad and Android Tablets via Bluetooth LE
Monday, August 10, 2026
- iFixit Teardown Finds Rokid Smart Glasses Are Unusually Repairable
- CO2 Laser Carves Hydrophilic Channels in Parchment Paper for Biodegradable Electronics
- iBrick: A Giant iPod Nano-Inspired Music Player Built on Raspberry Pi CM5
- Avian Visitors: Raspberry Pi and USB Mic Identify Garden Birds by Sound
- ESP32 and Machine Learning Grade Tomatoes on the Conveyor Belt
- Haniwa Splash: Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Automates Morning Plant Watering
- Continuously Extruding 3D-Printed Hollow Tubes Using Compressed Air
Sunday, August 9, 2026
- Tim Hunkin's History of Arcade Machines
- Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge
- Junkbin: A Community Dictionary for Reusing Old Electronics
- Grading Tomatoes With an ESP32 and Machine Learning
- AtomNyarm: A Robot Arm Possessed by an Unmodified StackChan
- Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic
- LILYGO T-Echo Card: Solar-Powered nRF52840 LoRa Dev Kit with IP66 Rating
- MaTouch ESP32-S3 MaUWB Board Combines Touchscreen and UWB for Indoor Positioning
Saturday, August 8, 2026
- Wrist Welcomes Wii Nunchuk as Ergonomic Macropad
- Dell XPS 13 Beats MacBook Neo on Energy Efficiency Benchmarks
- Skip the Water Block: Direct Liquid Cooling Tested on Bare GPU and CPU Dies
- Vibe Watch Taps Your Wrist When AI Agents Need Attention
- M5Stack TAB5 Becomes a Full Smart Home Dashboard with LVGL Touch UI
- Modulus: Open-Source CNC Pendant Written in Zig for Zero-Lag Jogging
Friday, August 7, 2026
- PhantomDrive: Open Source USB Drive Hides an Encrypted Secret Partition
- Look Mum No Computer Builds a Propane Organ That Makes Music and Fire
- How Rubidium Frequency Standards Work: IMSAI Guy's Three-Cell Explainer
- CNC-Inspired Adjustable Wrench Uses Anti-Backlash Spring to Stop Rounding Bolts
- Amiga Corporation Reaches IP Agreements with Commodore International and Hyperion
- VANTIX: A Mostly 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox Sized for NEMA 17 Steppers
- PID Without the Math: Al Williams' Spreadsheet Simulates P, I, and D Step by Step
Thursday, August 6, 2026
- Addressable LEDs Make Giant 16×2 Character Display
- Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD
- 3D Printing a Usable Airless Tire
- Only the Hottest Tunes Play on This Fire Organ
- Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
- OmniStamp: A Palm-Sized Omnidirectional Robot Built on M5Stack StampS3A
- Sandwiching Carbon-Fiber Cloth Into 3D Prints Triples Yield Strength
- Three-Year Build: A Full British Rail Class 800 Cab for Train Simulators
- Developer Ports CP/M to 80386 Protected Mode via CP/M-68K Codebase
- Inside a 1971 Bendix PPI-1 Weather Radar Display From a McDonnell-Douglas DC9
- BornHack 2026 Runs Its First FM Radio Station at 102.8 FM
- Adafruit Announces CircuitPython Day 2026 for August 21
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
- Sketching Temporary Circuits With A Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
- The 16K Display That Ate Las Vegas
- Easy Theremin Uses ESP32
- Hacknect: A Wireless Automation Platform Inside a USB Cable
- myCobot 280 X Edition (10th Anniversary)
- Autodesk Fusion on Linux: Five Workarounds That Actually Run It
- BG2B Is the Lowest-Power Bluetooth LE SoC from Silicon Labs So Far
- ChronoWatch X2040 – A DIY Watch With RP2040, 3D Printed Case, Custom Firmware
- 28.9M-Parameter LLM Runs Locally on ESP32-S3 at 9 Tokens/s
Monday, August 3, 2026
- Seven Sensors and Breakout Boards to Avoid in Your Next Product
- Easy ESP32 Theremin Uses Built-In Capacitive Touch Pins as Antennas
- Building a Retro Game Console From Scratch With an RP2350B
- An ESP32 Automates Rooftop Water Tank Level Control in India
- HeyGears G1 Combines UV Inkjet Printing With 3D Printing in One Machine
- Affordable Multi-Material Printers Are Driving a Slicer Software Boom
- SketchForge Is a Local Browser-Based 3D Editor That Exports STEP Files
- Octopus 16 Turns Brain Signals Into Game Controller Input via EEG
Sunday, August 2, 2026
- Seven Sensors and Breakout Boards to Avoid in a Product
- HeyGears G1 Combines UV Flatbed Printing and 3D Printing in One Desktop Machine
- Deck de France Turns Indoor Bike Trainers Into Video Game Controllers
- Stewart Platform Hexapod Gains Force Sensing via Resistors in Series with Servos
- SketchForge Offers Browser-Based 3D Modeling Without Accounts or Cloud Services
- Stream32 Brings Open-Source Flexibility to ESP32-Based Macro Pad Builds
- 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox for NEMA 17 Steppers Achieves 92% Efficiency
Saturday, August 1, 2026
- Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button with ITO Coating
- Open-Source Drop-In Replacement Motherboard for the Original PlayStation
- TongDou: An Open-Source ESP32-S3 Desktop Robot with 24 GHz Radar
- Seeed Studio reTerminal Sticky: A $49.90 ESP32-S3 ePaper Display with Four Open-Source Firmware Options
- FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S: A Compact Dual-GbE Rockchip Router with Wi-Fi 6 and USB-C Console
- Creality Falcon T1 Review: A 5-in-1 Modular Laser Engraver Tested with Fiber and Diode Modules
- Open Hardware Summit 2026 Wraps in Berlin with Talks on Open Batteries, DNA Sequencing, and Arduino’s Future
- Hacknect Hides an ESP32-S3 Wireless Automation Platform Inside a USB Cable
Friday, July 31, 2026
- Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC Temperatures
- ESPKVM: A Capable KVM Built With the ESP32
- Open RC Spotter: RC Telemetry Board Gives Racers a Data-Driven Edge
- Custom Beach Robot Handles the Hard Work So You Don't Have To
- Wrangling Data Center GPUs Into a Desktop for Local LLM Inference
- Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck
- M5Brick Puts a Smart Microcontroller Inside a LEGO-Compatible Brick
Thursday, July 30, 2026
- Maker Builds First Web Browser to Run on an ESP32 Microcontroller
- Hacker Builds Portable Weather Radar from a $5 RV Satellite Dome
- Thingino Open-Source Firmware Unlocks Cheap IP Cameras for Maker Projects
- Researcher Uses Keyboard LEDs to Bridge an Air Gap Between Isolated Computers
- Sovol M1D IDEX 3D Printer with Six Swappable Toolheads Raises $2.7M on Kickstarter
- Maker Transforms 1970s Atari Superman Pinball Playfield into LED Wall Art
- ESPKVM Project Delivers Open-Source KVM Over IP Using the ESP32-P4
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- The ESP32 Gets A Web Browser
- Building A Portable Weather Radar
- Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks
- Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet
- Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access
- FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code
- Cassegotchi: Arduino Nano Tamagotchi
- Waveshare RP2350-POE-ETH: RP2350 Board With PoE
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- Hackaday Europe 2026: High Performance SDR On The Cheap
- Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few
- Regain Some Trust In Unknown USB Drives
- M.A.S.K.-Inspired Cyberdeck For All Your Portable Computing Needs
- The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next
- Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
- Reviving A Retro Mouse With BlueTooth Low Energy Support
Monday, July 27, 2026
- Open RC Spotter Brings ESP32 Telemetry and Data Logging to RC Vehicles
- AI Uses Fusion 360 MCP Server to Design a PiClock Case
- Delta Pen Plotter Automatically Swaps Colors Using Magnetic Tool Changer
- How to Duplicate Small Parts Using Two-Part Silicone Molds
- 3D-Printed Optical Cavity Measures Nanometer-Scale Displacements
- BEAVIS Hybrid Balloon-Multirotor Achieves One-Hour Flight Endurance
- Layer-Rotation Palette Method Speeds Up Multi-Color 3D Printing
Sunday, July 26, 2026
- Delta Pen Plotter Draws In Multiple Colors
- Building A Fencing Scoring Box
- Taking Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos
- Add Sensors To Everything!
- ICCU Monitor Logs Data In E-GMP EV Failures
- Repairing A RED Cinema Camera On The Cheap
- Team Repair Breaks Things To Teach People How To Fix Them
- How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com Got Mauled By Bots
Saturday, July 25, 2026
- Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
- Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eye Tracking and EMG for Cursor Control
- E-Ink Writing Deck Pairs Typewriter Keys with E-Paper Display
- AMD Launches Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Processors and Kria AI SoM for Robotics
- Raspberry Pi Launches 10-Inch Touch Display 2 with IPS Panel and Multi-Touch
- Simply Perfect Clock Uses Raspberry Pi and NTP for Set-and-Forget Timekeeping
- Beelink ME Pro 2-Bay NAS Gains Intel Wildcat Lake, 10GbE, and Thunderbolt 4
Friday, 24 July 2026
- AMD Launches Ryzen AI Embedded X100 for Robotics and Physical AI
- Running DOOM on a Custom CPU Built From Scratch
- Saving Some Coin With 3D Printed Solder Paste Stencils
- A Train Departure Board for the Home
- Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp Drone
- Run Home Assistant on the Arduino Uno Q: Docker + MQTT Setup
- New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing
- CirkitScape Top HAT Expands Raspberry Pi with GPIOs, RS-485, ADC
Thursday, July 23, 2026
- Voice Control Toolkit Comes To A Pico Near You
- 60 FPS NES Emulator On ESP32
- Industrial GPU Adapted For The Desktop
- NVIDIA Increases Jetson Module Prices by Up to 101%
- An LLM In The Kitchen: Recipe Lanes Turns Recipes Into Flow Charts
- Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-NG
- Old TV Vacuum Tube Turned DIY X-Ray Machine
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- NVIDIA Quietly Raises Jetson Prices by Up to 101%
- Anemoia-ESP32 Achieves 60 FPS NES Emulation With Full Audio
- OOMWOO: A Fully Open-Source Robot Vacuum That Skips the Cloud
- Community Project Brings Arduino Support to Nordic nRF54L Wireless SoCs
- ART-Pi II Packs 600 MHz STM32H7R7 and Pi-Compatible GPIO for $44
- Neural Net on Raspberry Pi Reads Analog Gas Meter Dials Automatically
- Creality Falcon A1C Brings Enclosed Laser Engraving to Beginners at $199
- BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Runs on the ESP32-P4
- AirSense Turns a Trash Can and Xiaomi HEPA Filter Into a Smart Air Purifier
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- 20 FPS on E-Paper Display Without Help
- Bat-Inspired Echolocation Gives Drones a Sixth Sense
- Igor Builds a Feature-Rich Drum Machine from Discrete Components
- Project Gigapixel: A Flatbed Scanner Becomes a 3.2GP Camera
- Old SSDs Find New Life as 3D-Printed Game Cartridges
- Reticulum over HF Radio: A Blueprint for a Post-Internet Network
Monday, July 20, 2026
- Pico-USB-WiFi Firmware Converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W Into a Driverless USB WiFi Adapter
- Open-Source Firmware Replicates OpenAI Codex Micro on a $47 M5Stack Core2 ESP32
- Zilog Z80 Turns Fifty: The Chip That Powered a Generation of Home Computers Still Lives On
- Phantom Twist Drone Spins So Fast Its Spindly Frame Turns Nearly Invisible
- DIY Perks Turns Discarded Laptops and iMacs Into High-Performance Custom PC Builds
- Seven Reliable Methods for Installing Magnets in 3D Prints Without Glue
- NOAA's GOES-19 Weather Satellite Goes Offline During Atlantic Hurricane Season
Sunday, July 19, 2026
- OSHWA's Open Hardware Summit 2026 Convenes at TU Berlin
- Open-Source Mid-Drive E-Bike Motor Puts Repairability First
- KAIST's APT-RL Gives Quadruped Robots a Unified Gait Brain
- Embedded Arena Loops Real Hardware Into AI Model Optimization
- Phantom Twist Drone Becomes Near-Invisible at High Spin Rates
- DIY Pop-Up Truck Camper Uses Aluminum-Plywood Sandwich Construction
- Open-Source Firmware Turns $47 M5Stack Core2 into $230 AI Agent Pad
- HamGPT Brings AI-Powered Band and Propagation Data to Ham Radio
- ESP32-C3 Roulette Wheel Tracks Scores via SQL Over WiFi
- Why a Simple Calculator UI Needs a Surprisingly Complex State Machine
Saturday, July 18, 2026
- EU Weakens Battery Regulation With Six New Device Exemptions
- Seeed Studio reCamera Pro Opens Pre-Orders at $299.90 With 3 TOPS On-Device AI
- Espressif Releases esp-aliro SDK for Interoperable Smart Lock Access on ESP32
- Open-Source Firmware Turns $47 M5Stack Core2 Into $230 Codex Micro Substitute
- Open Sauce 2026 Opens This Weekend With 500+ Maker Projects in San Mateo
- BornHack 2026 Cyber Aegg Badge Blends LoRa Mesh, NFC, and Tamagotchi in One Egg
- Isopropyl Alcohol Frees Stubborn TPU Prints From Textured PEI Build Plates
Friday, July 17, 2026
- Wireless LCD Streaming for the ANENG AN870 Multimeter
- A USB Port By Any Other Color…
- GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating
- White Rails Are The Infrastructure Hack We Didn't Know We Needed
- A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light
- Hackaday Europe 2026: Build A Cable Modem for Your Arduino
- Bad Apple On A Karaoke Machine
Thursday, July 16, 2026
- Open-Source AIS Transponder Fits Entire RF Section in the Antenna
- Pinch Squeezes a Full Arduino-Compatible Board into a USB-C Connector
- Zig Becomes a Drop-In C Compiler for Cross-Compiling a Linux 3D Printer
- DOOM Runs at 0.0001 FPS Inside a 300 MB CSS Stylesheet
- NVIDIA’s Jetson T2000 and T3000 Bring Blackwell AI to a Smaller Edge Module
- OpenStrap Edge Lets WHOOP 4.0 Owners Ditch the Subscription
- Reverse-Engineering Unlocks RK3576 NPU Support in Mainline Linux
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
- Open Book Touch Makes Crowd Funding Debut
- Fibrous Muscles for Humanoid Robotics
- 2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Laser Bandsaw
- Benchmarking Repairability Scores With an Asus Tablet
- Project Gestalt: A Nier-Inspired 64×64 RGB Matrix Display
- GroveNFC Based on RP2040: Multi-Protocol NFC for Makers
- Handwritten Math Solver Uses MyPalletizer 260 Robot Arm
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
- The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator
- 2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call for Proposals Now Open
- Get Your ESP32 Sunny Side Up With This Solar Dev Board
- OSHWA's Open Hardware Summit 2026: Hottest Hardware Event of the Year?
- John Deere Owners Win Right-to-Repair Under New FTC Settlement
- OpenPuck: DIY Steam Controller Puck with Multi-Console Emulation
- Homebrew ZX Spectrum Gets an RP2350 Brain in Place of the ULA
Monday, July 13, 2026
- John Deere Settles Right-to-Repair Charges with FTC
- Raspberry Pi Gains Industrial SPE Networking HAT
- MicroPython Arrives on the SNES With AIs Help
- DOOM Ported to the 1995 Casio Loopy Console
- Open-Source 4-Axis CNC Hot-Wire Foam Cutter
- A Homemade Ceramic Printer That Actually Works
- The First New WW2-Spec Jeep Built Since 1945
Sunday, July 12, 2026
- Software-Defined Vehicles Are Closer Than the Auto Industry Admits
- MicroPython Comes to the SNES — With a Little Help From Claude Fable 5
- DOOM Runs on the Casio Loopy — and It Prints Screenshots on the Sticker Printer
- Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator: MS-DOS, a 486, and a Teletext ISA Card
- Clay Extruder Enables Printable Pottery — Including a Fired Ceramic Chain-Mail Mesh
- GeoLupe: A Robotic Arm That Shows Satellite Imagery Where You Point on a Paper Map
- A $5 AliExpress Desk Toy Gets Custom Firmware — and Becomes a Proper Desktop Notifier
Saturday, July 11, 2026
- Open Book Touch: Open-Source ESP32-S3 E-Reader Raises 13x Its Goal on Crowd Supply
- OpenCAL Brings Layerless Volumetric 3D Printing to the Maker Community
- M5Stack Stamp-C5 Packs ESP32-C5 Wi-Fi 6 and 802.15.4 Into a Tiny $6.50 Board
- Clawrophyll: A Potted Plant Running a Full AI Agent Loop on Arduino UNO Q
- AVU: Open-Source Autonomous Mobile Robot Built for Home Assistance and Research
- PocketVault: Keychain-Sized AES-256 Hardware Password Manager on M5StickC
- Hackaday Guide Demystifies Tiny LCD 7-Segment Displays and Their AC Drive Requirements
Friday, July 10, 2026
- A Super-Cheap Desk Toy Becomes a Hackable Desktop Notifier
- Open Book Touch: A DRM-Free, WiFi-Connected Open-Source E-Reader
- Get a Handle On This Compact Pi Portable
- Overpowered RC Car Gimbal Cam: The Greatest Chase Vehicle We’ve Ever Seen
- Makerfabs MaUWB: ESP32-S3 UWB Module With PoE for Home Assistant RTLS
- Die Casting Comes Home
- xTool O1 Omni UV Printer Now Available for Pre-Order
Thursday, July 9, 2026
- DIY Satellite Time Server Hits Nanosecond Accuracy with ESP32-P4
- Maker Cracks Amazon Echo Show 8 via Direct eMMC Access
- polyUAnalog Brings True Analog Polyphony with Raspberry Pi Pico and AS3397
- Raspberry Pi 5 Becomes 8-Channel Sound Card with TOSLINK Output via Single LED
- ESP32 Bit Pirate Turns a €5 Board into a Browser-Based Hardware Lab
- KKSB Launches Rack Panels for Raspberry Pi Clusters in Standard Server Enclosures
- IBM Home Director: How Big Blue Tried to Automate Your Home in 1996
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
- Volumetric 3D Printing Gets a Hobbyist-Friendly Path With OpenCAL V2 and Tomo
- SB Mini II Is a Homebrew Apple II Clone Built Entirely From Off-the-Shelf DIP ICs
- OBI Smart Energy Tracker Reverse-Engineered to Self-Host on Local MQTT Instead of AWS
- The Atari Jaguar Now Boots Linux on Its 16-Bit 68000 CPU
- Cambridge's Future Nostalgia Project Publishes Floppy Rescue Guide Using Greaseweazle
- ESP32Talkie Turns an M5StickS3 Into a License-Free Wi-Fi Walkie-Talkie
- Tic ArUco Toe: A Robot Arm Learns Tic-Tac-Toe With OpenCV ArUco Markers and Minimax AI
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
- Mercedes-Benz Open-Sources ARDEP, Its Automotive Rapid Development Platform
- PocketMage: A Hackable ESP32-S3 PDA Now Crowdfunding on Crowd Supply
- Mutiny Is an Open-Source Electric Kei Truck You Can Build From Plans
- Open-Source 80386 Gets a 39% Speed Boost via Early Memory Access
- 8,192 RISC-V MCUs Wired Up as a DIY “Ultracluster GPU”
- Your $30 Blood Pressure Monitor May Be Lying to You, Says Hackaday Europe Talk
- Calixto's AM62L STAMP Is a 40×40mm Linux SOM for Industrial and EV Applications
Monday, July 6, 2026
- Microdistillery For Microchemistry
- Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device
- The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp
- US Navy Testing 3D Printed Fighter Jet Parts
- This KVM Runs A P4 Instead Of A Pi
- Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested
- Bondtech INDX Development Kit Orders Open Friday
- Startup Unveils 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module
Sunday, July 5, 2026
- DIY E-Ink Faceplate Gives Valve's Steam Machine a Customizable Face
- Homelab Gets Full Kubernetes Cluster Hidden Inside Vintage Linksys Cases
- The Persistent Display We Never Got: STC's 1986 Smectic A LCD Prototype
- Disc Polishing Goes Open Source With the 3D-Printed RGR ezBuff
- Run GIMP 0.54 From 1996 on Modern Linux With This New Flatpak
- DMX-Controlled Stage Clock Has Independently Moveable Hands via Dual-Shaft Stepper
- Five DIY Solar Air Heating Panels Tested: Screen Beats Steel
Friday, July 4, 2026
- This KVM Runs A P4 Instead Of A Pi
- Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device
- Settling The Debate On Soldered Versus Crimped High-Current Connectors
- Microdistillery For Microchemistry
- The Organ That Forgot To Use Transistors
- ESP32-C5 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 IoT Board Ships With 1.47-Inch Color LCD
- HALO TOUCH V2: Customizable Desktop USB Hub With Round Touchscreen and Rotary Encoder
- BIGTREETECH Panda Sense Pro Monitors 3D Printer Air Quality From $79.99
July 3, 2026
- PaperBoy: Game Boy Emulator Hits 60 FPS on E Ink
- Zelda: Twilight Princess Successfully Ported to 3DS
- Denmark Police Walk Back Airport Drone Sighting Reports
- Open Healthware Conference Returns July 9–10 in San Francisco
- Cyberdeck Raspberry Pi 4 Mini Music Workstation
- Titan Mini: Compact Renesas RA8P1 Edge AI Board at $44
- Waveshare ESP32-C5-LCD-1.47: First Dual-Band WiFi 6 IoT Dev Board
- KolibriOS 0.7.7: Assembly-Built OS Still Turns Heads in 2026
Thursday, July 2, 2026
- Sony to End Physical PlayStation Disc Manufacturing by 2028
- Denmark Sets a Sensible Standard for Hobby Drone Regulation
- OrthoRoute Brings GPU Acceleration to PCB Autorouting
- Researchers Engineer Fish-Inspired Micro-Submarines for Environmental Monitoring
- Terra System Navigates Without GPS Using Existing FM Radio Infrastructure
- Terminus: An ESP8266-Powered Text-Only Cellular Phone Built by a Maker
- Tanmatsu One Year On: The Open-Source ESP32-P4 Palmtop Has Matured
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
- Open-Source Webcam + WebHID App Auto-Docks Steam Controller
- 3D-Printed Displacement Sensor Hits 2-Micron Repeatability
- DIY Brass-Mounted Laser Achieves Single-Mode Fibre Coupling
- Oomwoo Is an Open-Source, 3D-Printable, Offline Robot Vacuum
- DIY Bioethanol: From Table Sugar to Fuel at ~$9.91/Gallon
- Python Indexing Bug Casts New Doubt on Microsoft's Majorana Qubit Claims
- HamsterOS Packs a 32-Bit GUI OS onto a Single 1.44 MB Floppy
- 60 Hz E-Ink Game Boy Handheld Built on a $7 ESP32-S3 Dev Board
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
- Hackaday Europe 2026 – Building A Retro PC From Scratch
- HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop Onto 1.44 MB Floppy
- Making A Magnetic Core Memory USB Drive
- Mechanical TV, Without The Benefit Of New Parts
- Hard Drive Speakers Crank Out Classic Demo
- 2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Super-Simple Laser Precision For Your Stargazing
- It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
Monday, June 29, 2026
- Hack Improves Cheap Speed Controllers
- World's Biggest RC A380 Is a Big Deal
- Accurate Split-Flap Display Can Be 3D Printed
- Custom Hybrid Drivetrain Powers RC Boat
- Prusa Updates Open Community Licence, Adds Plugin System
- VIDYUT: Compact MPPT Solar Controller for Off-Grid IoT
- HamsterOS Crams a Full Graphical Desktop Onto a 1.44 MB Floppy
Sunday, June 28, 2026
- Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent
- World's Biggest RC A380 Is A Big Deal
- Cramming A Mini-ITX Gaming PC Into A 3D Printed Steam Machine Sized Case
- Make Your Own Loudspeaker From Scratch
- A Quantum Magic 8-Ball
- Bringing Swift To The Apple II
- Do Metal Roofs Turn A Bird House Into An Oven?
Saturday, June 27, 2026
- A Century of Radio History Ends as BBC Silences 198 kHz Long Wave
- 3D-Printed Case Squeezes Mini-ITX Hardware Into Steam Machine Footprint
- Swift Comes to the Apple II via a Custom 6502 Bytecode VM
- This Magic 8-Ball Draws Its Answers From Real Quantum Randomness
- Science Settles It: Metal-Roofed Birdhouses Are Not Ovens
- Discounted Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Surfaces at 1.25 GHz Clock Speed
- Makerfabs MaTouch ESP32-P4: 10.1-Inch HMI with 4G LTE, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi 6
Friday, June 26, 2026
- Gea Stack Brings CSS and TypeScript UI Development to the ESP32
- RTK GPS Brings Sub-Meter Precision to a DIY Tracked Robot Platform
- Orange Pi 6 Launches With 12-Core Arm SoC, Dual 2.5GbE, and 45 TOPS AI Compute
- OpenC6 Brings PC-Style BIOS Architecture to the ESP32-C6 Microcontroller
- Louder ESP32 Mini Retrofits Passive Speakers With Smart Home Audio for $15
- Canonical Declares 2026 the Year RISC-V Goes Mainstream for Desktop and Server
- ESPHome Replaces Legacy Dashboard With New Device Builder as Default Interface
- Quectel FCM365X Combines Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5.4, Zigbee, and Thread in One Compact Module
Thursday, June 25, 2026
- A Look At A Gaggle Of Transputer Boards
- Laser Scanning a Cave With Homebrew Gear
- VFD Clock Runs on a Single AA
- Raspberry Pi Locator Website to Shut Down in July
- A T9 Keyboard for Your Smartphone
- A BIOS for Your ESP32-C6
- OSHWA's Open Hardware Summit 2026: Hottest Hardware Event of the Year?
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
- Drop-In PCB Upgrade Transforms Casio G-Shock Into Multifunctional Computer
- BIOS-Like Runtime Layer Brought to Espressif ESP32-C6 Microcontroller
- Large-Scale GPS Spoofing Attack Tests Navigation Infrastructure Resilience
- Open Source Firmware Turns ESP32 Touchscreens Into Prusa Fleet Controllers
- Open Source Mod Drives Five Monitors From a Single Commodore 128
- Open Hardware Summit 2026 in Berlin Draws Global Maker Community
- Modular ESP32 HotKeys Build Offers Stackable Open Source Macro Controller
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
- Long-Theorized GPS Weakness Now Exploited at Scale — LEO Constellation Offers a Path Forward
- LightComposer: Hockey-Puck Lamp Pairs ATmega328P with SK6812 LEDs and Rotary Control
- Post-Print Annealing Does Not Fix Carbon Fiber Filament Adhesion in FDM, Research Concludes
- SDS-Remote Adds Waveform Capture, SCPI Scripting, and AI Integration to Siglent SDS 1000X-E Scopes
- Teardown: US Prison Tablet Runs Windows 10 Kiosk Mode Inside Hermetically Sealed Opaque Case
- Four Ungrounded NES PPU Pins Unlock Extra Graphics Capabilities in Retro Hardware Hack
Monday, June 22, 2026
- WLED 16 Brings Particle Systems, GIF Support, and Custom Fonts to LED Makers
- Matter 1.6 Adds Full NFC Commissioning and Joint Fabric Multi-Admin Support
- SmallRun.net Launches as Marketplace for Maker PCBs, 3D Prints, and Merchandise
- ESP8266 Beam-Splitter Build Creates Two-Way Floating Holographic Puzzle Box Display
- Vintage Magazine Circuit Layouts Get Second Life Via Toner Transfer PCB Method
- AAEON UP WCL Fits Intel Core 7 Wildcat Lake Into a Credit Card-Sized SBC
- 10Gbit SFP+ Copper Module Teardown Reveals Hidden 8051 MCU and Thermal Limits
- Maker Builds Six-Module Bug Zapper Suit for Whole-Body Mosquito Defense
Sunday, June 21, 2026
- QuadRF Puts Phase-Coherent Four-Channel SDR in Makers’ Hands
- Pine64 Launches PineVoice, a $50 RISC-V Smart Speaker for Home Assistant
- iFixit Teardown of Oura Ring 5 Exposes Smart Ring E-Waste Crisis
- ESP32-S3 Brings Smart Lighting Sync to Bambu Lab P1S via MQTT
- Ghost Edge AI Sticker Puts nRF54L15 SoC into Paper-Thin Sensor Node
- Edgeberry Zero Carrier Board Gives Raspberry Pi Zero a Field-Ready IoT Foundation
- Inside a Cooked 10 Gbit SFP+ Module: What Kills These Network Transceivers
Saturday, June 20, 2026
- Pine64 Launches $50 PineVoice RISC-V Smart Speaker for Home Assistant
- WLED 16 Brings GIF Playback, PixelForge Editor, and Particle System to LED Matrices
- Open-Source WEEDINATOR Agricultural Robot Reaches Field-Ready Milestone
- Maker Etches PCBs Directly From Vintage Magazine Pages Using Toner Transfer
- Raspberry Pi Pico Breathes New Life Into 1981 Epson HX-20 Laptop
- Matter 1.6 Specification Adds NFC Commissioning and AI Thermostat Suggestions
- Million Measure Benchmark Charts Performance From WWII Colossus to Raspberry Pi 5
- Qualcomm Commits to Upstream-First Linux 2.0 for Dragonwing IoT Platforms
Friday, June 19, 2026
- Commodore Unveils Linux-Powered Flip Phone Running Sailfish OS
- 3Dresyn's Depolymerizable Resin Makes Photopolymer Recycling Possible
- Builder Creates Two-Way Holographic Display With ESP8266 and Beam-Splitter Cube
- Qualcomm Linux 2.0 Brings Upstream-First Open Development to Dragonwing IoT
- Open Healthware Conference 2026 Approaches: San Francisco, July 9–10
- Snap-Fit ESP32-C3 Super Mini Enclosure Joins the #3DThursday Collection
- Maker Solves the Panel-Mount OLED Display Problem With Custom PCBs
Thursday, June 18, 2026
- Brandon Lai Designs Custom Cycloidal Actuators for DIY Humanoid Robot
- Steampunk Tachyscope Uses Century-Old Vacuum Tubes for 360° Laser Oscilloscope Display
- SCINTIX P4 Brings ESP32-P4 Compute Module Compatibility to Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5 Boards
- Zhihe A210 Octa-Core RISC-V SoC with 12 TOPS NPU Powers Compact SoM Dev Board
- Markforged Adds Four New Colors to Its Onyx GF Industrial 3D Printing Material Line
- Rockchip RK3539 Quad-Core Cortex-A55 SoC Debuts in Low-Cost Android 14 4K TV Stick with AV1 Support
- Amlogic A311Y3 Targets Edge AI with Cortex-A78 Cores, 8 TOPS NPU, and LPDDR5 Memory
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
- Bike-Powered Shredder Tackles 3D Printer Plastic Waste
- Researcher Exploits Honda Civic Infotainment Using AOSP Test Keys
- ADLINK COM-HPC-mPTL Module Packs 180 TOPS Panther Lake Silicon
- AMD Opens Pre-Orders for $4,000 Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform
- OneThingCloud OEC Box Pays Users for Spare Home Bandwidth
- Maker Builds Animatronic Velociraptor With Moving Eyes and Snapping Jaw
- Raspberry Pi Begins Beta Testing a Refreshed Desktop With Icon Dock
- Hackaday Traces the Long History of Unix Commands on Windows
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
- Counterfeit XLR Ground Loop Isolator Found Wired Straight Through
- Kotinos Ergonomic Mouse Gives Each Fingertip Its Own Saddle
- Microsoft Offers Downloadable Xbox Thumbstick Toppers for Accessibility
- HopFlyt Cyclone eVTOL Drone Revives Custer's Channel Wing
- Gateworks Catalina GW9200 Industrial SBC Builds on NXP i.MX 95
- Year 2000 Bug in BSD 2.11 Survived Undetected on a PDP-11/70
- CNC-Machined Piano Key Holder Cradles Your House Keys
Monday, June 15, 2026
- Open-Source Modos Flow Pushes E-Ink To A 60 Hz Refresh Rate
- Bambuddy Offers Cloud-Free, Self-Hosted Control For Bambu Lab Printers
- New Firmware Gives The Hackaday Communicator Badge A Second Life
- GentleOS Brings A Tiny, Clean Kernel Shell To 16- And 32-Bit PCs
- PZSDR P047 Packs An AMD RFSoC Into A High-End SDR Board
- Adding Heft To 3D Prints Cleanly With Plaster Of Paris
- Researchers Propose An Ultrasound Patch As An Alternative To Implanted Pacemakers
- Open-Source MiniBot Turns Each Chess Piece Into Its Own Robot
Sunday, June 14, 2026
- Bambuddy Offers Makers a Self-Hosted Alternative to Bambu Lab's Cloud
- Modos Flow Open-Source E-Ink Monitor Hits 75 Hz — the Highest Yet for E-Paper
- Espressif ESP32-E22 Earns Wi-Fi 6E Certification; Open-Source Linux Drivers Released
- GentleOS Revives 16- and 32-Bit x86 Hardware with a Lightweight Desktop OS
- 3D-Printed Watch Case Achieves Professional Finish Using Miyota 8N24 Movement
- Ultrasound Chest Patch Could Replace Surgery-Dependent Pacemakers
Saturday, June 13, 2026
- Espressif's ESP32-E22 Wi-Fi 6E Module Earns Wi-Fi Certified Status, Open-Source Linux Drivers Released
- Hackaday Communicator Badge Gets FreeRTOS Makeover With Meshtastic and GPS Support
- M5Stack Launches Capsule Kit v1.1: Compact ESP32-S3 IoT Controller for $19.95
- Apna Dost Homebrew Macropad Delivers QMK, OLED Feedback, and Rotary Encoder in One Build
- Add Real Weight to 3D Prints With Plaster of Paris: A Clean, Accessible Technique
- MSX Home Computer Emulated on ESP32-S3 With VGA Output, No External Framebuffer Required
- Inside the Lagercrantz: Teardown of a Swedish Cold War Spy Suitcase Radio
Friday, June 12, 2026
- Hackaday Communicator Badge Gets Full Meshtastic Support in New Firmware
- Hand-Cranked AI Demonstrator Runs Inference on Harvested Mechanical Energy
- Video Survey Covers Every Major Analog-to-Digital Converter Architecture
- Maker Faire Prague 2026 Draws Thousands With Robots, Tesla Coils, and Teen Engineers
- Seeed Studio's $7.99 Wio-S3 Packs ESP32-S3 and LoRa Into a Tiny Surface-Mount Module
- Open-Source piBrick PocketCM5 Is a Pocket Linux Computer Powered by Raspberry Pi CM5
Thursday, June 11, 2026
- 16-Camera DIY Motion-Capture Rig Processes 4 Billion Pixels Per Second
- Safely Repurposing Old EV Battery Packs for Home Solar Storage
- 240-MP: A Raspberry Pi Media Player That Bridges VCR Nostalgia and 4K HDMI
- Hand-Cranked Raspberry Pi 5 Runs a Local LLM on Zero Grid Power
- Hacker Builds a DIY CO 2 Scrubber for His Homemade Diesel-Electric Submarine
- Free USB 2.0 Unlock for the Power Mac G4, Courtesy of Apple’s Own ROM
- Amply: Build a $10 Hi-Fi Class AB Bluetooth Amplifier from Scratch
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
- Giving A Power Mac G4 A USB Upgrade, For Free!
- The Secret Wattcycle LFP Battery Downgrade
- How The 2020s Chip Crisis Led To A Buggy Saleae Analyzer In 2026
- Print Your Own Robby The Robot
- ESPHome 2026.4.0 Brings a Big Performance Boost for the ESP32
- Custom FM Radio Station Powered By Shell Scripts
- Deep Dive Into Sputnik
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
- IOCCC 2025: The Most Gloriously Unreadable C Code on Earth
- Hidden 176-Bit Mystery Field in Every GPS Broadcast Finally Under the Microscope
- YouTuber Berm Peak Jailbreaks the Reevo Hubless E-Bike — Protocols Reversed, Files on GitHub
- “Lathe” Prompts LLMs to Teach Instead of Build — A Smarter Use for AI Coding Assistants
- Ken Shirriff Powers Up a 1948 IBM 604 Thyratron Module — History Lives Again
- Revisiting AI Coding Assistants: Are You Holding It Wrong, or Is It Just Wrong?
- Armbian Imager 2.0 Supports 338+ SBC Boards with Custom Profiles and Dark Mode
Monday, June 8, 2026
- Fixing The Failure Of The Reevo
- Pi Pico Puts Bluetooth Keyboards On The I2C Bus
- 3D Printing A Miniature CoreXY Printer
- Desalinating Seawater With Solar And No Brine
- An Ethernet WiFi Router On A Pi Pico 2W
- Bluetooth Gramophone Has Surprisingly Contemporary Roots
- How Small Can You Make A C Executable?
Sunday, June 7, 2026
- AkiraOS Brings “Docker for Microcontrollers” to Embedded Firmware
- 9th Annual Maker Faire Long Island Draws 2,000+ at Stony Brook University
- Stratasys vs Bambu Lab: Does Industrial ABS Justify the Price Premium?
- Pi Pico Demo “Sum Ergo Demonstrato” Pushes RP2040 to Its Limits
- ATtiny85 Runs a Full Intel 8080 Emulator, Boots CP/M
- bt2i2c Bridges Bluetooth Keyboards to I2C Using a Pi Pico W
- Homebrew Driver Adds USB Webcam Support to the Original Xbox
Saturday, June 6, 2026
- ATtiny85 Hosts an Intel 8080 Emulator to Boot CP/M
- Vintage Sansui Linear-Tracking Turntable Gets ESP32 Brain and Home Assistant Integration
- Pi Pico 2W Becomes a Bit-Banged 10BaseT Ethernet-to-WiFi Router Written in Rust
- Over-Engineered 3D-Printed Spool Holder Rises from Prusa Mk4S Conversion Remnants
- Brand-New NiMH Cells Stored 12 Years Recover Surprisingly Well
- Hands-On Benchmarks Finally Settle the S3 Virge '3D Decelerator' Debate
- Teardowns Reveal Multiple Cassette Tape Mechanisms Still in Active Production
Friday, June 5, 2026
- Vintage Turntable Gets Brain Transplant and Home Assistant Integration
- Microsoft Claims 20-Second Qubit Lifetimes on New Quantum Chip
- How To Embed Magnets in FDM Prints Without Ruining Your Printer
- Skylight Project Turns Any Ceiling Into a Live Aircraft and Planetarium Display
- ESP32-S3 WiCAN Dongle Brings OBD-II Car Data Into Home Assistant
- Maker Adds Full RGB Backlighting to Hackaday Communicator Badge Keyboard
Thursday, June 4, 2026
- Texas Instruments Silently Changes NE5532 and Other Classic Op-Amps Into Incompatible Versions
- DIY Ceramic Circuit Boards: A Maker Fires Functional PCBs From Native Clay and Copper Powder
- Diffraction Grating Clock Hides Its Digits Until You Look Through the Lens
- Game Dodecahedron: Raspberry Pi 3 Bare-Metal Console Runs AArch64 Assembly With No OS
- Fixing a Game Boy Clone That Runs Too Fast: Wrong Oscillator Was the Culprit
- Raspberry Pi Gives Any Web Browser Full Remote Control of an Albrecht AE-5900 CB Radio
- Deltarune’s TV-Headed Tenna Brought to Life With Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, and AR Glasses
- Workshop Maker Converts Failed Lawn Tractor Transaxle to Full Hydraulic Hydrostatic Drive
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
- 2026 EMF Badge 'Spaceagon' Arrives With Hexpansion Keyboard Add-On
- Mirror Trick Enables Single-Pass 3D Scanning of Both Object Sides
- Snapmaker OrcaSlicer Update Adds Official FullSpectrum Color Printing
- Maker Faire Long Island Returns June 6 at Stony Brook University
- The MagPi Issue 166 Explores Music-Making With Raspberry Pi
- Diffraction Grating Turns LED Grid Into Floating Digit Display
- ESP32P4C61-TINY Packs Dual RISC-V Cores Into a $40 Kickstarter Board
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
- Duke University's 20-Legged Argus Robot Bounces Like a Tumbleweed on DARPA Funding
- FDM Printer Becomes Low-Temperature Cookie Oven in All-3D-Printed Kitchen Build
- Raspberry Pi Pico W Powers Bilingual E-Paper News Feed for Language Learning
- University of Chicago's PopTuber Machine Bends Pop Tubes Into Arbitrary 3D Shapes
- Building Your Own Gigabit Router in 2026: OpenWrt on ARM and x86 Hardware Compared
- Pebble Is Now Open Source — Here's How to Build Your First Watch App
- Restoring Apple's First Tangerine iBook: A 300MHz PowerPC Nostalgia Trip
Monday, June 1, 2026
- Duke's 20-Limbed Argus Robot Bounces Like a Beach Ball on Legs
- Maker Spends Six Months Building a Fully Functional FDM Printer From Wood
- Open-Source E-Bike Display Uses Reflective LCD for Full-Sunlight Readability
- Agatha Mallett Builds a 4-Bit Relay Logic Counter Using D-Type Flip-Flops
- PiBrick Packs a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Into a 3D-Printed Pocket Computer
- Maker Tests Loading Sega Genesis ROMs From a Vinyl Record Using RP2350
- Cornell ECE Students Replicate Bletchley Park's Enigma Codebreaking on an FPGA
- Hackaday Launches Frikkin Lasers Contest: $150 DigiKey Prize for Laser Projects
Sunday, May 31, 2026
- Engineer Cracks Sub-60-Second Benchy After Two Years of Development
- PiBrick: Open-Source Raspberry Pi CM5 Pocket Computer Ships Full Build Files
- Cheap Yellow Display Gets PSRAM Upgrade to Run SNES and Genesis Emulation
- Six FDM Waterproofing Methods Tested to 1 Bar Pressure: Internal Epoxy Wins
- California Assembly Passes Bill Requiring Gun-Blocking Software on All 3D Printers
- The Uncooperative Mirror: Arduino-Powered Art Installation Disrupts Its Own Reflection
Saturday, May 30, 2026
- PiBrick Handheld Raises the Bar for DIY Raspberry Pi Portables
- Equestrian-Inspired Controller Translates Rein Tension Into USB Input
- VOC-Sensing Fume Cabinet Keeps Resin 3D Printing Safe at Home
- ESP Osito Brings a Native OS to the Cheap Yellow Display
- One-Button Medication Reminder Logs Daily Compliance to MicroSD
- A $30 ESP32-S3 Wristwatch Puts Cloud AI Voice on Your Wrist
- PCMFlow722 Library Brings G.722 Wideband Voice Over ESP-NOW
- Petros Alef Is a Pico-Sized RISC-V Board With USB 3.0 for Camera Projects
Friday, May 29, 2026
- ESP32 Firmware Breathes New Life Into Abandoned Bose SoundTouch Speakers
- Two Scrapped Xbox One Mainboards Reborn as a 10 GB USB Flash Drive
- Hackaday Launches ‘Frikkin Lasers’ Contest With $150 DigiKey Gift Card Prize
- Video Testing Shows LFP Batteries Vent Explosive Hydrogen When Overcharged
- Linux Makers Can Now Pipe Any Video Stream Into Apps as a Virtual Webcam
- Free 128 GB Torrent Lets Makers Boot 570+ Historical Operating Systems in a VM
- Pi Pico Peripheral Adds a Real-Time Minimap to the Classic ZX Spectrum Game Atic Atac
Thursday, May 28, 2026
- Three Arduinos Team Up to Make 80s-Style Computer
- Canada’s CHU Shortwave Time Signal Shutting Down June 22
- Autopsy of a Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor Reveals Decades of Degradation
- ESP32-Powered Clock Reproduces the Errors of a Cognitive Screening Test
- Radio Amateur Decodes Tianwen-2 X-Band Telemetry Ahead of Asteroid Arrival
- Overcharging Test Reveals Hydrogen Explosion Risk in LFP Battery Cells
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
- ESPHome 2026.5.0 Ships with Revamped Device Builder Web App
- 3D-Printable Desktop Wind Tunnel Visualizes Aerodynamics on a Budget
- RAKwireless WisMesh Pi HAT Turns Raspberry Pi into Modular Meshtastic Gateway
- PD-64 Shrinks the Commodore 64 Power Supply to Match the Port It Plugs Into
- Researcher Cracks Honeywell X2S Smart Thermostat Encrypted Firmware
- Carrier-Locked Moto G Power Becomes a $50 Linux Desktop with Termux
- DIY Zinc-Air Battery Stack Powers a Model Car in Energy-Dense Experiment
- Etchbot Robot Draws Full Portrait Videos on an Etch-a-Sketch in Under a Minute
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
- Z386 Brings Open-Source Intel 80386 Back to Life on FPGA
- This PCB D20 Has a Mood — and It Remembers Your Bad Rolls
- Firefox Finally Supports Web Serial: Big Win for Makers Everywhere
- M5Stack's CardputerZero: A $59 Credit Card Linux Computer for Makers
- Hacknect: An ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi Automation Platform Hidden Inside a USB Cable
- Rapp Instruments Offers a Benchtop Neutron Generator for Home Researchers
- V2X2MAP Turns an ESP32-C5 Dev Board Into a Live V2X Traffic Monitor
Monday, May 25, 2026
- M5Stack CardputerZero Brings Raspberry Pi CM0 to Your Pocket
- Flipper One Revealed as Open Linux Cyberdeck, Team Asks Community to Help Build It
- This PCB D20 Has Moods and Might Cheat on Your Rolls
- 3D-Printed Cyclone Dust Separator Achieves 99.95 Percent Efficiency
- The Raven Is a Custom Motorola 68060 Atari Clone Built for Low-Level Tinkering
- Mozilla Brings Web Serial to Firefox, Partners with Adafruit for Maker Workflows
- Maker Builds Wristwatch That Tells Time with a Single Analog Meter Needle
- Reverse Engineering the Unitree Go2 Quadruped Motor Opens Doors for Custom Robotics
- Open Hardware Summit 2026 Wraps Two-Day Run in Berlin
Sunday, May 24, 2026
- Unitree GO-M8018-6 Motor Driver Opened Up for Open Source
- Direct Granules FDM Extruder Reaches Version 7.1
- Hackaday Europe 2026 Wraps in Lecco with Talks, Badges, and Bold Hacks
- Single Needle, All the Time: Maker Builds Analog Meter Wristwatch
- Water-Cooled 3D Printed Rocket Engine: Educational Failure with a Point
Saturday, May 23, 2026
- Flipper Devices Unveils the Flipper One, an Open ARM Linux Computer for Network Hacking
- Unitree GO-M8018-6 Robot Motor Gets Open-Source Firmware via Community Reverse Engineering
- DIY Hydroelectric Turbine Generates 200W from 3m Head Using PVC Pipe and Hoverboard Motor
- M5Stack StopWatch Brings a 1.75-Inch Round AMOLED Display to ESP32-S3 Development
- Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro's 10GbE Router Board Struggles Toward Official OpenWRT Support
- Autonomous DIY Submarine Navigates Underwater Using Raspberry Pi 4 and HSV Color Detection
- Espressif Reveals Two ESP32-S31 Reference Boards with Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, and Audio
Friday, May 22, 2026
- Making A PCB The Old-Fashioned Way
- Sliding-Screen Cyberdeck Has Chunky, Rugged Design
- Transforming Lamp Built With LED Filaments
- Building A Better Automotive Rotary Controller
- Wayland Comes To Minecraft
Thursday, May 21, 2026
- CrowdClock: Self-Synchronizing LED Festival Badges Need No Master
- FDM 3D Printers Emit UFPs and VOCs — Even PLA Produces Formaldehyde
- DIY Filament Dryer V2: Custom PCB, SHT30 Sensor, and Open-Source Design Files
- Put the Moon on Your Desk: ESP32-S3 Circular Display Tracks Real Lunar Position
- DecayDock: ESP32-CAM and Edge AI Keep Track of Fridge Freshness
- Flipper One Unveiled: RK3576 Linux Multi-Tool With RP2350 Co-Processor Targets Hackers
- DIY iDrive Rival: ESP32-S3 Crowpanel Module Gets 3D-Printed Automotive Housing
- ODROID-H5: $250 Intel i3-N300 SBC Brings 10GbE and Four M.2 Slots to Maker Builds
- Procolored X One Hits $700K on Kickstarter: 20W Laser Plus UV Printer in One Enclosure
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
- DecayDock: ESP32-CAM Companion Tracks Fridge Freshness With Edge AI
- Pip-Boy on Your Wrist: Huy Vector Builds Fallout Smartwatch Around ESP32-S3
- Rapid PCB Prototyping: The Raccoon Lab Uses a 3D Printer and Copper Tape
- DIY Portable Magnetometer: ESP32 and Fluxgate Sensors Map Invisible Fields
- The 8-Bit Web Server: AVR Microcontroller Hosts a Live Public Webpage
- Inside the Pulse Oximeter: How Two LEDs Reveal Your Blood Oxygen Level
- Bent Wood, Not Broken: Recreating a Laminated Furniture Part From Scratch
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- Maker Group Builds Working Replica of Chernobyl SKALA Display Panel
- ESP32-S3 Status Screen Monitors Bambu Labs 3D Printers over MQTT
- Analog Voltmeter Clock Uses AVR128DB28 and Software PWM
- Harbor Freight Predator 212 Engine Gets DIY Electronic Fuel Injection
- Rotation-Based Electroplating Method Handles Oversized 3D-Printed Parts
- Selective Laser Melting Creates Porous ‘Breathable’ Steel for Injection Moulds
- 1995 Casio Organizer Retrofitted with Raspberry Pi Zero and Color Display
Monday, May 18, 2026
- Qualcomm’s QCC74x SoC Takes Aim at ESP32 with Wi-Fi 6 and RISC-V Core
- Makers Build Working Replica of Chernobyl’s SKALA Control Room Display
- Five PLA Filaments, 292 Colors: Filament Interpolation Expands Desktop 3D Printing Palette
- Open-Source ESP32-S3 Boards Use WAGO Connectors for Tool-Free Module Swapping
- Chronova Engineering Builds Milling Machine Attachment for 0.1 mm Drill Bits
- Menlo Research Open-Sources Asimov v1 Humanoid Robot with Full CAD and BOM
- OSHWA April Roundup: HackRF Pro and 17 More Devices Win Open Hardware Certification
Sunday, May 17, 2026
- ESPHome 2026.4.0 Delivers 34% Speed Boost for ESP32 — With a Power Draw Trade-Off
- Salvaged Calculator VFDs Get Second Life in Nixie-Inspired Clock
- Hacknect Launches on Kickstarter: ESP32-S3 Automation Platform Hidden Inside a USB Cable
- Anthropic Open-Sources Claude Desktop Buddy: Physical BLE Control for AI Workflows on ESP32-S3
- Mixapps Brings Back the Mixtape as an Offline-First Progressive Web App
- Fixing a $6,000 Cotton Candy Machine Reveals Rockchip Android Core and Right-to-Repair Headaches
Saturday, May 16, 2026
- preFlight Slicer Adds Interlocking Perimeters and Expanded 3D Printing Features
- Jailbroken Nintendo Switch Runs Klipper, Cuts Prusa MK3S Print Time by 91%
- Convert an IKEA SKAFTSARV Lamp Into a WLED Smart Light With an ESP32-C3
- Cheap Solar Garden Lights Upgraded Into Wireless IoT Nodes With STM32 and NRF24L01+
- Researcher Reverse Engineers Hard Drive Firmware, Uncovers Backdoor Vendor Commands
- Maker Builds Precision Milling Attachment to Drill 0.1 mm Holes Without Breaking Bits
- Inside the Heathkit Factory: A History of the Kit Company That Taught a Generation
Friday, May 15, 2026
- Start9 Launches Fully Open-Source RISC-V Router Running StartWRT
- Jailbroken Nintendo Switch Cuts Prusa MK3S Print Time From 90 Minutes to 8
- M5Stack PaperColor Brings 4-Inch Spectra 6 Color E Ink Display to ESP32-S3
- Yocto Project 6.0 “Wrynose” Released With Linux 6.18 LTS and Four-Year Support Window
- PortaRF Merges HackRF One and PortaPack H4M Into a Single Open-Source SDR Board
- Maker Birdbrain Builds a Brushless E-Bike Motor Entirely From First Principles
- Clawdmeter Is a DIY ESP32-S3 AMOLED Dashboard for Real-Time Token Usage Monitoring
Thursday, May 14, 2026
- LiDAR Matrix Sensor Gives ESP32 Robot Genuine 3D Vision
- Custom Mainboard Brings the PlayStation 2 Into Handheld Form
- Unitree Robot Dog Investigation Exposes CVE and Suspicious Firmware Traffic
- VTech Toy Laptop Reborn as PinkPad V1: A Raspberry Pi Linux Machine
- Y-Zipper: 3D-Printable PLA and TPU Mechanism Converts Flat Strips Into Rigid Rods
- FreeCAD 1.1 Gets a Thorough Beginner Tutorial Focused on Real Engineering Workflow
- Baltazar Studios Builds a Scientific Calculator Around a Fully Custom FPGA CPU
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
- CERN Opens 17,000-Part KiCad Library to the World
- Full Linux Cyberdeck Crammed Into an Altoids Mint Tin
- Hackaday Europe 2026 Opens in Three Days in Lecco, Italy
- Critical RCE Vulnerabilities Exposed in Unitree Robot Dog Firmware
- Repairing the GoPro Hero 10: Common Fault, Scarce Parts
- ColorStack Converts Game Assets to Full-Color FDM Print Files for $10
- PCB Shortage Looms as Resin Disruption and Copper Prices Spike
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
- Muxcard: A Credit Card Computer That Actually Fits in All Three Dimensions
- Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Delivers Real Force Feedback for Driving Simulator
- Mermaid in the Shell: A Fully Featured Cyberdeck Hidden Inside a Seashell Clutch Purse
- Researcher Fully Reverse-Engineers the Fisher Price Pixter Handheld Line
- Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Cables That Detect Earthquakes Can Also Hear You Speak
- This Water Clock Uses Glass-Bottle Fifteen-Segment Displays Driven by Peristaltic Pumps
- Pi Slate Is a Pre-Order Raspberry Pi 5 Cyberdeck with a 5-Inch 1920×720 Touchscreen
Monday, May 11, 2026
- Polysynth Breakthrough: Multi-Material Resin Printing Arrives for Home Users
- Build a Binaural Microphone Rig for Under $70 Using Off-the-Shelf Silicone Ears
- KernelESP Turns the ESP8266 Into a Networked Control System With a UNIX-Like Shell
- MIT's Open-Source Inchworm Robot Assembles Structures From Modular Voxel Blocks
- Noctua Releases CAD Files for Its Fans — But 3D-Printed Replicas Deliver Half the Airflow
- DFRobot's 6.67-Inch Flexible AMOLED Display Brings Curved Screens to Raspberry Pi and Friends
- April OSHWA Certifications Include HackRF Pro SDR, a Wildlife Camera, and an ESP32-C6 Home Sensor
- Maker Faire Rome 2026 Opens Global Call for Makers, Schools, and Researchers
Sunday, May 10, 2026
- LisaFPGA Faithfully Recreates Apple Lisa on Open-Source FPGA Board
- Noctua Fan CAD Files Put 3D Printing Limits to the Test
- 1xBTS Delivers Complete Open-Source CDMA2000 3G Network Stack in Rust
- Crankless Bicycle Design Challenges a Century of Pedaling Convention
- Maker Faire Trieste 2026 Opens with Record 440 Exhibitors from Eight Countries
- Remembering the BBC Computer Literacy Project and Its Lasting Impact
Saturday, May 9, 2026
- CARA 2.0: A $1,000 Open-Source Robot Dog Built for Senior Design
- Microchip Samples LAN878x/LAN888x SPE PHYs with MACsec, TSN, and ASIL-B Support
- MIT’s MILAbot Inchworm Robot Assembles Voxel Structures to Build Houses
- NeoPixel Light Beam Clock Projects the Time Onto Your Wall for $10
- Amply: A $10 Class AB Bluetooth Amplifier with THD Below 0.015%
- Maker Builds Pan/Tilt/Slide Camera Rig from a Scrapped 3D Printer
- Maker Builds Warehouse-Style Automated Storage System for Home Garage
Friday, May 8, 2026
- Hackaday 2026 Green Powered Challenge Winners Announced
- 3D-Printed Az-El Mount Targets DIY Satellite Tracking
- Beyond GPS: A Maker's Guide to Global Navigation Satellite Systems
- University of Utah's TRIGA Reactor to Generate Electricity for First Time
- CARA 2.0: $1,450 Quadruped Robot Dog Proves Capstan Drives Can Compete
- OSHWA Adds 18 New Open Hardware Certifications in April 2026
- Maker Faire Delft 2026 Opens Today on TU Delft Campus
- Open-Source Workshop Lets Makers Train Their Own LLM in One Hour
Thursday, May 7, 2026
- PCB Material Shortage Looms as Iranian Strike Disrupts Saudi Petrochemical Supply
- HomoFaciens' Direct Granules Extruder V7.0 Brings Waste-Plastic Printing Closer to Reality
- Ploopy Bean Ships as Fully Open-Source TrackPoint-Style Mouse on RP2040 and QMK
- MiixKey Brings FIDO2 and Password Vault to an ESP32-P4 with a 2-Inch Touchscreen
- Toradex Zinnia Gateway Brings Verdin SoM to Edge AI and Industrial Automation
- STMicro-Inria-Freie Universitat Study Finds Rust Viable but Larger than C on Cortex-M33
- CARA 2.0 Cuts Quadruped Robot Cost in Half with Capstan Rope Actuators
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
- LightInk: Open-Source Solar-Powered ESP32 Smartwatch Targets Infinite Battery Life
- Timeframe E-Paper Dashboard Brings Mindful Smart Home Displays to Life
- NFC as a Qi Alternative: The Case for 13.56 MHz Wireless Power in Low-Power Devices
- Maker Builds Desktop Wire EDM Machine to Cut Precision Steel Gears at Home
- ESP32-Powered RGB Laser Galvo Projector Plays Asteroids and Renders Vector Art
- Renesas Releases RZ/V2H Robotics Development Kit with 80 TOPS AI Vision and PX4 Support
- Hamster Wheel Generator Accumulates Enough Energy to Start Charging a Smartphone
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
- E-Paper Family Dashboard Puts Smart Home Data Where It Belongs — On the Wall
- ESP32-Powered Lantern Brings SolarPunk Community Bulletin Board to Your Neighbourhood
- 3D-Printed Solar Case Gives Old Nook Simple Touch a Self-Sustaining Second Life
- New $24 ESP32-P4 Board Brings Raspberry Pi-Compatible MIPI Camera and Display Support
- Repurposed 3D Printer Parts Become a DIY Camera Slider in This Resourceful Build
- Texas Instruments TI-84 Evo Brings Python, USB-C and a Faster Chip to Its Iconic Calculator Line
- Congatec’s Compact COM Express Module Packs 41 TOPS of AI Into a 15W Edge Platform
Monday, May 4, 2026
- 3D-Printed Orrery Drives All Eight Planets From a Single Motor
- ESP-FLY Kit Brings ESP32-S3 Micro-Drone Flight to Makers for $59.99
- Open-Source ESP32 Polyphonic Synth Is Also a Bluetooth MIDI Controller
- Prunt Board 3 Brings 31-Phase S-Curve Motion to Open-Source 3D Printer Control
- ESPHome 2026.4.0 Raises ESP32 Default CPU Clock to 240 MHz, Boosts Performance 34%
- Hackaday Links: Server PSU Benchtop Hack, Parametric Cage Generator, and Ask Jeeves Signs Off
Sunday, May 3, 2026
- Spark ESP32 Synthesizer: Open-Source Pocket Synth, Sampler, and MIDI Keyboard
- Vintage IBM P275 CRT Pushed to 2880×2160 with Interlaced Signal via Intel iGPU
- Museum Foucault Pendulum Goes Silent: Step-by-Step Electronics Fault Diagnosis
- Prunt Board 3: Open-Source 3D Printer Control Board with Six TMC2240 Drivers Hits Crowd Supply
- ESPHome 2026.4.0 Boosts ESP32 to 240 MHz Default, Adds Signed OTA and 46x Faster Sensor Publishing
- RFID Jukebox Build Uses ESP32, DFPlayer Mini, and MFRC522 for Card-Tap Music Playback
- Banana Pi BPI-OM7 Pairs RK3588 SBC with ORBBEC Gemini 2 Depth Camera for Edge AI Vision
Saturday, May 2, 2026
- Rust Powers a $1 Handheld Gaming Console on a 9-Cent RISC-V Chip
- Museum Staff Debug the Drive Electronics Behind a Stopped Foucault Pendulum
- ESP32 Desk Display Puts Your Calendar on an 8×8 LED Matrix Without the Phone
- Off-Grid Magnetic Induction Water Heater Turns Mechanical Rotation Into Heat
- Researcher Publishes Open-Source Bootloader Running Ubuntu 24.04 on the Original PS5
- Commodore 64 Mainboard Meets the PET Case in a Vintage Electronics Restoration
- ESP-FLY Kit Packages a Pocket-Sized ESP32-S3 Quadcopter for Makers and STEM Classes
Friday, May 1, 2026
- Alberta Startup's DRM-Free Tractors Gain Ground in Right-to-Repair Fight
- M5Stack Cardputer Mesh Kit Brings Meshtastic Off-Grid Comms to Your Pocket
- Maker Builds Gaming PC With Zero Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD Components
- DIY USB-C Charger Stack Delivers Power to 100 Devices Simultaneously
- Unitree Expands Affordable Dual-Arm Robot Line With R1-A5 and R1-A7
- NVIDIA Phases Out Four Jetson Modules Amid LPDDR4 Supply Crunch
- 3D-Printed Rig Turns DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Into a Serious Cinema Camera
- STMicro Launches Ultra-Low-Power Global Shutter Sensors for Always-On Edge Vision
Thursday, April 30, 2026
- Gaming PC Built Without a Single Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD Component
- Wipeout Clone Runs Natively on an ESP32-S3 Microcontroller
- Noctua Releases Free 3D CAD Models of Its Entire Fan Lineup
- Full-Featured DSP Library Brings Multi-Channel Audio Processing to the Pi Pico
- Tindie Returns Online Under New Owner EETree LLC After Two-Week Outage
- MiciMike Drop-In PCB Turns a Google Home Mini Into a Local Voice Assistant
- Open-Source Android App Scans Local Networks to Find Every Raspberry Pi
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
- Hackaday Europe 2026 Final Speakers and Workshops Announced for Lecco, Italy
- WaveOverhangs: New OrcaSlicer Fork Prints 90-Degree Overhangs Without Supports
- Compression Molding Turns Failed PLA and HDPE Prints Into Useful Objects
- Supercapacitor-Powered IoT Node Demonstrates Off-Grid High-Power Bursts
- Fully 3D-Printable Desktop Pinball Machine Launches on Kickstarter
- Scrap Labs Debuts Benchtop LPBF Metal 3D Printer at $9,600 Kit Price
- 1955 Vacuum Tube Amplifier Rebuilt With Baking Trays as Chassis
- Tenth GPS III Satellite Reaches Orbit, Completing the First Full Block
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
- Researchers Develop Method for Creating PCBs from Natural Clay
- The Challenges of 3D Printing Reliable Springs
- 2026 Open Hardware Summit Announced
- New Open Source Web Tool for Simulating Arduino, ESP32, and More
- Raspberry Pi Prices Increase Amidst AI Bubble
- KernelUNO: A Lightweight OS for Arduino UNO