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Calling all creators, tinkerers, and innovators! Our new Maker & DIY News Page is your go-to hub for the latest updates, projects, and inspiration from the world of making. We’ve scoured the web to bring you the most exciting news, tutorials, and trends in the DIY community—all in one convenient spot. Whether you’re into 3D printing, electronics, woodworking, or just love getting hands-on with creative projects, we’ve got you covered.
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Ask Hackaday: How Do You Detect Hidden Cameras?
The BBC recently published an exposé revealing that some Chinese subscription sites charge for access to their network of hundreds of hidden cameras in hotel rooms. Of course, this is …read more
Lessons Learned After a Head-First Dive Into Hardware Manufacturing
Sometimes you just know that you have the best ever idea for a hardware product, to the point that you’re willing to quit your job and make said product a …read more
7 Home Cleaning Myths We Still Believe — And Why 2026 is the Time to Let Them Go
If your social feeds feel suddenly spotless, youâre not imagining it. With spring cleaning season colliding with the ongoing popularity of CleanTok and a renewed interest in mindful living sparke...
A New and Strangely Strong Kind of Plastic
As anyone who extrudes plastic noodles knows, the glass transition temperature of a material is a bit misleading; polymers gradually transition between a glass and a liquid across a range …read more
Pendulum Powered Battery
While the average person would use a standard charger to top off their phone, [Tom Stanton] is no average man. Instead, he put mind to matter with an entire pendulum …read more
Kodak MC3: Everything But a Phone In 2001
One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as possible, whether it’s a Walkman with a radio …read more
Hackaday Links: February 8, 2026
We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25 years of operation. Located …read more
Wooden Case Makes a 2026 TV Stylish
The middle of the 20th century produced a revolution in understated stylish consumer design, some of which lives on today. The reality of living in a 1950s or ’60s house …read more
Habit Detection For Home Assistant
Computers are very good at doing exactly what they’re told. They’re still not very good at coming up with helpful suggestions of their own. They’re very much more about following …read more
Investigating the Science Claims Behind the Donut Solid State Battery
Earlier this year Donut Lab caused quite the furore when they unveiled what they claimed was the world’s first production-ready solid state battery, featuring some pretty stellar specifications. Sin...
Upgrading The E-mu Audity 20 Years After Factory Support Ended
If you purchased an E-mu Audity 2000 ROMpler back in 1998, you almost certainly got a rig with the 1.00 firmware. It was fine, if a little limited, particularly where …read more
The Ultimate DIY Backyard Ice Rink: A ManMade Guide to Building Your Own NHL Arena
The NHL is officially on pause for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, leaving a hockey-sized hole in your evening schedule. But while the pros are over in Italy, your backyard is sitting idle. D...
Upgrading An Old Macbook With an Old Processor
The Core Duo processor from Intel may not have been the first multi-core processor available to consumers, but it was arguably the one that brought it to the masses. Unfortunately, …read more
555-Based Square-Wave and Triangle-Wave Function Generator Build for Beginners
Over on YouTube [Andrew Neal] has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly comprehensive. [Andrew] shows us how to build a square-wave generator …read more
A Simple Desktop Pomodoro Timer
Pomodoro timers are a simple productivity tool. They help you work in dedicated chunks of time, usually 25 minutes in a sitting, before taking a short break and then beginning …read more
When Clever Hardware Hacks Bite Back: A Password Keeper Device Autopsy
Sometimes you have this project idea in your mind that seems so simple and straightforward, and which feels just so right that you have to roll with it. Then, years …read more
180 Shots on a Roll with the Little Stupid Camera
If you want to play with the coolest kids on the block when it comes to photography, you have to shoot film. Or so say the people who shoot film, …read more
A Failed SwitchBot Plug Mini and Cooking Electrolytics
Poorly designed PCBs and enclosures that slowly cook the electrolytic capacitors within are a common failure scenario in general, but they seem especially prevalent in so-called Internet-of-Things dev...
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