Birdhouses can be a great way to help out nesting birds in your area, but they can be a bit intensive to make. As part of a 500 birdhouse marathon, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/do-metal-roofs-turn-a-bird-house-into-an-oven/)

A Quantum Magic 8-Ball
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/a-quantum-magic-8-ball/

If you ever cracked open one of those Magic 8-Ball toys, you found little more than a polyhedron floating in some dark-colored fluid. It was a quasi-random way of asking …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/a-quantum-magic-8-ball/)

Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/hacking-routers-like-its-2008/

WRT54G in front of a Hackaday article celebrating it’s 20th birthday.
" data-image-caption="Spill some for the WRT
" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/DSCF3565.jpg?w=800">How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/hacking-routers-like-its-2008/)

Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/requiem-for-long-wave-as-the-bbc-goes-silent/

Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/requiem-for-long-wave-as-the-bbc-goes-silent/)

Cramming a Mini-ITX Gaming PC into a 3D Printed Steam Machine Sized Case
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/cramming-a-mini-itx-gaming-pc-into-a-3d-printed-steam-machine-sized-case/

The recently released Valve Steam Machine is somewhat awkward in that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact apparently has irked some people who decided …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/cramming-a-mini-itx-gaming-pc-into-a-3d-printed-steam-machine-sized-case/)

Bringing Swift To The Apple II
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/bringing-swift-to-the-apple-ii/

Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a popular solution for programming apps across Apple platforms. That led …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/bringing-swift-to-the-apple-ii/)

A Standalone YouTube Streaming Rig
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/a-standalone-youtube-streaming-rig/

YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to run it all. It’s quite a process, and for [Coreymillia], …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/a-standalone-youtube-streaming-rig/)

World’s Biggest RC A380 is a Big Deal
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/worlds-biggest-rc-a380-is-a-big-deal/