The Montgomery Ward Gasoline-Powered Clothes Iron
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/the-montgomery-ward-gasoline-powered-clothes-iron/

Before the advent of electricity in the home made electrically-heated clothes irons a possibility, ironing was a cumbersome process, with self-heated irons being an arguable improvement over solid (so-called sad) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/the-montgomery-ward-gasoline-powered-clothes-iron/)

An Improved Robot Dog for Senior Design
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/an-improved-robot-dog-for-senior-design/

[Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/an-improved-robot-dog-for-senior-design/)

The ESP8266 Gets An OS, and it’s familiar
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/the-esp8266-gets-an-os-and-its-familiar/

A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/the-esp8266-gets-an-os-and-its-familiar/)

This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/this-week-in-security-another-linux-exploit-ubuntu-knocked-offline-finals-interrupted-and-backdoored-tools/

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/this-week-in-security-another-linux-exploit-ubuntu-knocked-offline-finals-interrupted-and-backdoored-tools/)

Broadcasting GPS on the Local Network to Help Geoclue Find You
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/broadcasting-gps-on-the-local-network-to-help-geoclue-find-you/

Rather than having users go through the inconvenience of having to punch in their current location, an increasing number of applications and websites use location services that can pin-point the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/broadcasting-gps-on-the-local-network-to-help-geoclue-find-you/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 369: IR, E-Ink, and Avgas
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-369-ir-e-ink-and-avgas/

In this episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the latest reason that cheap PCB fabrication isn’t quite as cheap as it once was. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-369-ir-e-ink-and-avgas/)

How Commodore Made a Sync Splitter
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/how-commodore-made-a-sync-splitter/