If you own a modern smartphone, there’s an excellent chance that its battery has run dangerously low on you at least a few times. Murphy’s Law dictates that this will …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/teardown-chargetab-emergency-phone-charger/)

Automating Window Shades With Home Assistant
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/automating-window-shades-with-home-assistant/

Most people love window shades, but many dislike the tedium of having to open and close them over the course of each day. While there are automation options here, if …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/automating-window-shades-with-home-assistant/)

Ask Hackaday: Do We Need a 21st Century Calculator?
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/ask-hackaday-do-we-need-a-21st-century-calculator/

Three resistors in parallel: 4.7 k,Ω 22 kΩ, and 3.3 kΩ. Quick! What’s the equivalent value? You can estimate it, of course, but if you want the actual 1.8 kΩ …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/ask-hackaday-do-we-need-a-21st-century-calculator/)

Using a Nintendo Switch to Speed Up a 3D Printer
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/using-a-nintendo-switch-to-speed-up-a-3d-printer/

3D printers are almost never fast enough. [Cocoanix] had a Prusa MK3S with this very problem. He found it to be disappointingly tedious when completing even simple prints, and sought …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/using-a-nintendo-switch-to-speed-up-a-3d-printer/)

preFlight Slicer Brings Added Part Strength Feature, and Many More
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/preflight-slicer-brings-added-part-strength-feature-and-many-more/

Interested in taking some wild new 3D printing features for a test drive? preFlight is free and open source slicer that brings a host of processing improvements as well as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/preflight-slicer-brings-added-part-strength-feature-and-many-more/)

Hacking Hard Drive Firmware
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/hacking-hard-drive-firmware/

You probably flash new firmware on a variety of devices regularly, even though that’s rare for non-technical types. But what about your hard drive firmware? Most of us don’t want …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/hacking-hard-drive-firmware/)

Mod this IKEA Lamp into Smart Lighting For Not A Lot
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/mod-this-ikea-lamp-into-smart-lighting-for-not-a-lot/

The IKEA SKAFTSÄRV is an economical LED accent lamp, but while highly affordable it has only fixed lighting options. [simoneluconi] shows how it can easily be turned into a fully-configurable, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/mod-this-ikea-lamp-into-smart-lighting-for-not-a-lot/)