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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Makers' News — Wednesday, September 2, 2026

8 stories · Hardware · Projects · Electronics · Makers' Pulse

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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
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Tuesday, September 1, 20269 stories
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, 20267 stories
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

Saturday, August 29, 20267 stories
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Launch $399 Microduck Biped Robot for Physical AI
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, 20267 stories
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


Wednesday, August 26, 20267 stories
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


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Tuesday, August 25, 20265 stories
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, 20267 stories
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, 20269 stories
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, 2026Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine, DIY Telescope, Cricut Hack, CircuitPython Day
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Friday, August 21, 20267 stories
Superconducting Temperature Record Set At Ambient Pressure
  • 3D Printering: Why Is My PLA So Brittle?
  • Homebrew 68K Machine Has A PCI Bus
  • Miniaturizing The Atari 2600 Console
  • CircuitPython Day 2026
  • Foldable OLED Displays And The Bane Of Dust
  • An Early History Of Space Stations: The Brick Moon Made Real


Thursday, August 20, 20267 stories
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


Saturday, August 15, 20266 stories
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, 20267 stories
Supercon Ten Tickets On Sale Now
  • Holograms, From Your Plotter
  • Bladerunners And The Mother Of Invention
  • Removing Microplastics From Soil With Tumbling Magnetic Flakes


Thursday, August 13, 20267 stories
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
  • 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
  • Total Solar Eclipse August 12: Hackaday Rounds Up Webcam Feeds for Makers at Home
  • Forlinx AM62L32 Local EVM Brings TI's Low-Power Cortex-A53/M4F SoC to Developers


Wednesday, August 12, 20268 stories
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
  • 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


Tuesday, August 11, 20267 stories
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


August 9, 2026 | Makers’ News | 8 stories

Saturday, August 8, 20266 stories
Wrist Welcomes Wii Nunchuk as Ergonomic Macropad
  • Dell XPS 13 Beats MacBook Neo on Energy Efficiency Benchmarks
  • Skip the Water Block: Direct Liquid Cooling 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, 20267 stories
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, 20265 stories
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


Aug 5, 20267 stories
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


Aug 4, 20269 stories
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


Aug 3, 20268 stories
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


Aug 2, 20267 stories
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


Aug 1, 20268 stories
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


Jul 31, 20267 stories
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


Jul 30, 20267 stories
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


Jul 29, 20268 stories
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)
    .replace(‘‘’,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


Jul 28, 20267 stories
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


Jul 27, 20267 stories
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


Jul 26, 20268 stories
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


Jul 25, 20267 stories
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


Jul 24, 20268 stories
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


Jul 23, 20267 stories
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


Jul 22, 20269 stories
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


Jul 21, 20266 stories
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


Jul 20, 20267 stories
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


Jul 19, 202610 stories
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


Jul 18, 20267 stories
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


Jul 17, 20267 stories
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


Jul 16, 20267 stories
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


Jul 15, 20267 stories
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


Jul 14, 20267 stories
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


Jul 13, 20267 stories
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


Jul 12, 20267 stories
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


Jul 11, 20267 stories
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


Jul 10, 20267 stories
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


Jul 9, 20267 stories
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


Jul 8, 20267 stories
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


Jul 7, 20267 stories
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


Jul 6, 20268 stories
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


Jul 5, 20267 stories
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


Jul 4, 20268 stories
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


Jul 3, 20268 stories
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


Jul 2, 20267 stories
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


Jul 1, 20268 stories
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


Jun 30, 20267 stories
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)
    .replace(‘‘’,s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive


Jun 29, 20267 stories
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


Jun 28, 20267 stories
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?


Jun 27, 20267 stories
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


Jun 26, 20268 stories
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


Jun 25, 20267 stories
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?


Jun 24, 20267 stories
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


Jun 23, 20266 stories
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


Jun 22, 20268 stories
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


Jun 21, 20267 stories
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


Jun 20, 20268 stories
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


Jun 19, 20267 stories
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


Jun 18, 20267 stories
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


Jun 17, 20268 stories
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


Jun 16, 20267 stories
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


Jun 15, 20268 stories
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


Jun 14, 20266 stories
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


Jun 13, 20267 stories
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


Jun 12, 20266 stories
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


Jun 11, 20267 stories
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 CO2 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


Jun 10, 20267 stories
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


Jun 9, 20267 stories
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


Jun 8, 20267 stories
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?


Jun 7, 20267 stories
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


Jun 6, 20267 stories
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


Jun 5, 20266 stories
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


Jun 4, 20268 stories
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


Jun 3, 20267 stories
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


Jun 2, 20267 stories
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


Jun 1, 20268 stories
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


May 31, 20266 stories
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


May 30, 20268 stories
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


May 29, 20267 stories
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 ).replace(‘’’,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


May 28, 20266 stories
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


May 27, 20268 stories
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


May 26, 20267 stories
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


May 25, 20269 stories
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


May 24, 20265 stories
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


May 23, 20267 stories
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


May 22, 20265 stories
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


May 21, 20269 stories
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


May 20, 20267 stories
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


May 19, 20267 stories
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)
    .replace(‘‘’, Steel for Injection Moulds
  • 1995 Casio Organizer Retrofitted with Raspberry Pi Zero and Color Display


May 18, 20267 stories
Qualcomm)
.replace(‘‘’,s QCC74x SoC Takes Aim at ESP32 with Wi-Fi 6 and RISC-V Core
  • Makers Build Working Replica of Chernobyl)
    .replace(‘‘’,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


May 17, 20266 stories
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


May 16, 20267 stories
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


May 15, 20267 stories
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


May 14, 20267 stories
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


May 13, 20267 stories
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


May 12, 20267 stories
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


May 11, 20268 stories
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


May 10, 20266 stories
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


May 9, 20267 stories
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)
    .replace(‘‘’,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


May 8, 20268 stories
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


May 7, 20267 stories
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


May 6, 20267 stories
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


May 5, 20267 stories
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


May 4, 20266 stories
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


May 3, 20267 stories
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


May 2, 20267 stories
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


May 1, 20268 stories
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


Apr 30, 20267 stories
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


Apr 29, 20268 stories
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


Apr 28, 20266 stories
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

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