Maker / DIY / Hardware (2026-02)

Every Hardware Deserves a Coder: Devstral Small 2 24B and Qwen3 Coder 30B (byteshape.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by dajonker Feb 28, 2026 Programming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack (npr.org)

HN 7 pts 0 comments by andsoitis Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

IEEE robot videos (video Friday) (spectrum.ieee.org)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by bsrkf Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Maps Mania: This Is London Calling – Discover Global Radio Mapping (googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by FreeGuessr Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

An Efficient Ralph Wiggum Loop on Raspberry Pi Powered by Mfbt [video] (youtube.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by dennisjoseph Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Who Will Command the Robot Armies? (2016) (idlewords.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by diafygi Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

I built an RGB controller with Arduino (svana.name)

HN 9 pts 1 comments by msvana Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Hardware footprint benchmarks for an offline maps/routing/geocoding stack (corviont.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by packet_mover Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Robotic Land Drone holds positions in Ukraine frontline for 45 days (youtube.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by lifeisstillgood Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Orbit – Diagnose why your robot policy fails and what data to collect next (github.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by rahillasne Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

3D Printer for Kids [video] (youtube.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by sxzygz Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

We don't have to have unsupervised killer robots (theverge.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by layer8 Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

DIY Ion-Exchange Membranes from Hardware Store Items [video] (youtube.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by ycnews Feb 28, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Self-Hosted NVR Upgrade: Raspberry Pi CM5 with Hailo-8 AI and Poe (youtube.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by shanzez Feb 27, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Building an Agentic Bug Bounty Hunter on a Raspberry Pi 5 (joe-b-security.github.io)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by joe-limia Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Show HN: Mac hardware toys – pipe your accelerometer into your keyboard lights (github.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by nikisweeting Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time (press.bmwgroup.com)

~ 10 pts 4 comments by unknown Feb 27, 2026 ~transport Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock (origami-robotics.com)

HN 86 pts 51 comments by shmublu Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

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FemtoClaw: Ultralight Port of OpenClaw/PicoClaw for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by rmast Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Running Neural Amp Modeler on embedded hardware (tone3000.com)

HN 35 pts 9 comments by woodybury Feb 27, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Show HN: SnapMyApp – App Store screenshot maker with Quick and Advanced editing (snapmyapp.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by sourabh86 Feb 27, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

It’s still a work in progress, so I’m sharing early for feedback.<p>What I think is different from most tools: it has a Quick mode for speed and an Advanced mode for full control, so you can either generate fast or fine-tune details (canvas, layers, frame, screenshot, background) in one place. It’s ...

Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)

HN 78 pts 26 comments by Brajeshwar Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

My Cat Kept Jumping on the Counter..So I Built a Robot [video] (youtube.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by DeathArrow Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

BMW deploys the humanoid robot AEON in production sites in Germany (robotics.hexagon.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by l0b0 Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Show HN: Personal AI with Dedicated Hardware and App. Everything Runs Locally (autonomynext.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by bvarghese Feb 27, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Connects to your email, bank accounts, investments, health data, home cameras, and car. Storage and inference is on-device. App connects to HW peer-to-peer.

BMW using Patents and Trademark to Make DIY Car Repairs Much Harder (jalopnik.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by ryan_j_naughton Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Let's Talk About the Humanoid Robot in the Room (matthiasplappert.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by mplappert Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

ZSA: Andrew Smith (people.zsa.io)

L 8 pts 3 comments by alper Feb 27, 2026 hardwareperson Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Robot wars are a reality (2007) (theguardian.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by bariumbitmap Feb 27, 2026 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

ValveFM: Vintage FM Radio TUI in Go (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by zorig Feb 27, 2026 Gaming / Retro Computing Maker / DIY / Hardware thread