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November 2026

  1. The Hidden Microcontroller Inside a LoRa chip
  2. A Bike-Friendly, DIY Action Cam Stereo Microphone
  3. Automate That Halloween Treating
  4. DIY Rooftop Tent Sets Up In a Jiffy
  5. It’s Alpine Linux, On A Kindle Paperwhite 3
  6. MousePods Reverse Engineers Head Tracking Data From Stubborn AirPods
  7. Using Halftone Images in QR codes Without Upsetting Scanners
  8. Why the ULC Audio Codec is a Perfect Fit for the N64
  9. This Week in Security: More Linux Bugs, Biggest Crypto Theft Ever, Prusa Printers, Residential Proxies
  10. The Goat Emoji Is 100% Valid Machine Code, and It Doesn’t Stop There
  11. Making Xibalba 64 , a New N64 Release in 2026
  12. Translating An Old Display To A New One
  13. Reviving Google Cardboard, Without Google or Cardboard
  14. Stunning Volumetric 3D Display Goes For a Spin
  15. A Tiny OS for a Tiny Board
  16. Folding Wings Could Be The Future For Air Travel
  17. Pitting a Modern Chess Engine on a Pentium PC Against 1996’s Deep Blue
  18. I Think We Should See Other SBCs
  19. Finger Joint Cutter Uses a Jigsaw Blade, But Not As We Know It
  20. Porting a “Crappy” Flash Game to the IBM 5150 and Beyond
  21. PiPedal Grants Guitar Effects, Amp Emulation, and More
  22. The First Business Computer Hits 75!
  23. Beautiful Laser Harp Hides Some Neat Tricks
  24. It’s DOOM , on a Toy Camera
  25. Making a Wax Motor for Micrometer-Level Control
  26. From Germanium to Diamond: the Many Shapes of Semiconductors
  27. Using a Cheap DC Motor to Make a Go-Kart Go
  28. Yesterday Has Never Looked This Good: Feast Your Eyes On The 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge Winners!
  29. A Ridiculous Journey to Set the Clock in a 2014 Renault
  30. Reading Data from an Unwilling Blood Pressure Monitor
  31. As LLMs Devour the Storage Market, Fujifilm Bets on Tape
  32. Cat Feeder Ensures Fed Cats
  33. Etching Press Aims To Impress
  34. Toddler Phone Calls Family and No One Else
  35. Detecting an Eight Magnetic Pole State using Chiral Phonons
  36. 2026 Hackaday Supercon: Bruce Potter’s Keynote Explores the Hacker Mind
  37. ToothPaste Goes Where Your Password Manager Doesn’t
  38. The Depiction Of Amateur Radio In The Movies And TV
  39. The Components for Life May Not Have Arrived By Comet
  40. NEMESIS Gives You Control Over Your Hyundai Head Unit
  41. Flying an RC Airplane with Twin Airblower EDFs
  42. Investigating whether Zener Diodes work for ESD Protection
  43. Ask Hackaday: What Puts This Photo In The Pink?
  44. Solar Light Shows Why Replacing NiMH with Li-Ion is Dangerous
  45. Looking For A Cellular Modem?
  46. Static Radio For The Chumby One
  47. A Hackable Analog Phone System
  48. Building The Stranger Things Lights For Halloween
  49. Hackaday Links: November 1, 2026
  50. Cheap FPGA Board Becomes Retro-Style Computer
  51. A Game Engine For Microcontrollers
  52. An Electronic Candle You Can Set On Fire
  53. FloppoScope is a Disk Image Analyzer
  54. Turning Syngas into Hydrocarbons with the Right Alpha
  55. Building an ADS-B Receiver For Less Than You Think
  56. Huge PalmOS Development Archive Goes Online, Thanks to Personal Backups
  57. Upgrading an Action Camera with an External Battery

October 2026

  1. Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot
  2. Voyager 1 Briefly Goes Silent, Scaring Everyone
  3. DIY WiFi Analyzer Sniffs Out Congestion and Coverage Issues, Suggests Fixes
  4. Bring On Supercon!
  5. Learn to Edit STL Files in Just a Few Minutes
  6. 3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools with Fire
  7. Novelty Camera To USB Camera
  8. VR Headset Ditches the Base Stations with DIY Tracking
  9. A 1982 Modem for $100
  10. Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More Valves
  11. A Modern Smalltalk
  12. Hackaday Podcast Episode 393: Epaper, Tamagotchi Hacks, and Supercon Talks Galore
  13. How Britain Narrowly Escaped a Grid Blackout in June 2026
  14. This Week in Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping, and a DHS Directory Dump
  15. The Sounds of the World, One Random Album at a Time
  16. Snake On a Seven-Segment Display is Gloriously Bad
  17. Is This The Only Instrument You Need?
  18. Putting a MiSTer Marquee on a Better Display
  19. Replicating the Color-Changing Effect of the Lycurgus Cup
  20. An Attempt at a Useful Desktop OS For Microcontrollers
  21. 2026 Hackaday Supercon: All the Speakers!
  22. Robot Picks up Othello
  23. Exploring What’s Left of Google’s VR Dreams
  24. An AI Chatbot for the Apocalypse
  25. Magnetic Lock Opens By Magic
  26. 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Custom RISC-V Processor For Retro System
  27. Battery Prototype Uses Superextensive Quantum Effects to Charge Faster
  28. Hacking the Modern Tamagotchi With UART
  29. Does Running an E-Paper Display at 30 FPS Destroy It?
  30. C64 Keycaps For Everybody
  31. Turning an Old Phone’s Motherboard into an RC Plane Controller
  32. JPEG-XL Is Back On The Menu
  33. Emulate the 486 in Your Browser
  34. SLAM Navigation For an Arduino Powered Car
  35. Hacking a Marine Radio Dish
  36. Airborne Particle Monitoring, the BIG way
  37. How a Single University Project Started Everything
  38. 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Explore Space with a Credit Card Reader
  39. Where Did Your Mouse Come From?
  40. How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database
  41. SIMD-accelerated Machine Vision on an ESP32-S3
  42. ESP32 Rotary Display Makes Ideal Timer
  43. The Oldest Windows App To Still Run On WIndows 11
  44. In Praise Of A Legendary Power Transistor
  45. Enable Resizable BAR on Unsupported Motherboards
  46. Practice Japanese on an Inkplate 4Tempera eInk Device
  47. Arduino Engine Runs Many Games
  48. BMW i3 Mod Brings Small Trucks to the EV Future
  49. The Fascinating World of IrDA and Other Infrared Protocols
  50. Hiding Virtualization From Other Software
  51. Hairy Armor For Combat Robot? It’s Not Terrible!
  52. Building a Swashplate-less Helicoper Rotor
  53. Transforming a Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer into a Transistor
  54. Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026
  55. A 3D Printed Marble Clock, but it’s Scrolling Text
  56. Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth on Android Phones
  57. Simple, Reliable RF Remote Control
  58. Meshtastic Pet Tracking
  59. An Analog TV Station For Anyone
  60. Pushing Bluetooth out to 12 Kilometers
  61. Remembering the Weirdest Nintendo DSi Accessory
  62. The Slurptop is Both Drool Worthy and Practical
  63. 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: I Would Do Anything For Serial Data
  64. That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port on Old Laptops
  65. Making for Others
  66. Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage
  67. A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude
  68. Using an Unmodded GBA as a Music Synth
  69. RepRapMicron Uses Fibre Optics To Print Tiny Benchy in Resin
  70. Automatic Coil Winder Takes the Tedium out of Actuators
  71. Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Storm of Crows Weapon
  72. Running a Philips CD-i Off USB-C
  73. Hackaday Podcast Episode 392: Microscopes, Drones, and Other DIY Things
  74. The MSX Gets A New Sound Expansion Cartridge
  75. This Week in Security: Record Patch Tuesday, PHP’s Bad Time, The Oldest Vuln, AI Armies, and More
  76. When You Can’t Pick Between Electric and Jet Power, This Buggy Has You Covered
  77. DOOM Ported to a $30 Clamp Meter
  78. Restoring a Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel
  79. NASA Batteries Survive Extreme Cold and Heat
  80. Car’s Camera Footage Backed up to NAS
  81. An Open Source Linear Capacitive Encoder
  82. Keeping Old Wi-Fi Radios Alive With Stream Conversion
  83. KiCad… In The Browser?
  84. Japan Launches Mission to Study Martian Moon
  85. Floating-Point Addition and Subtraction on Intel’s 8087
  86. Trying to Get Linux Running on a Nokia E6
  87. Reading QR Codes by Hand
  88. Making a Five-Segment Display with Platinum-Titanium Cathodes
  89. Every Type of Current Sensor Explained
  90. Sega Genesis Controllers on the Philips CD-i
  91. Knitting Yarn and Filament with FilaLoom
  92. Building a Simple Internet Radio
  93. The Age of Altair

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