AqMood is an Air Quality Monitor with an Attitude - You take your air quality seriously, so shouldn’t your monitoring hardware? If you... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/aqmood-is-an-air-quality-monitor-with-an-attitude/ #environmentalmonitor #addressableleds #airquality #homehacks #ledhacks #emoji

Recreating A Braun Classic With 3D Printing - Braun was once a mighty pillar of industrial design; a true titan of the mid-centu... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/recreating-a-braun-classic-with-3d-printing/ #homehacks #deskfan #braun #fan

A Different Take on the River Table Does it in Bronze - River tables are something we’ve heard decried as a passé, but we’re still seeing ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/a-different-take-on-the-river-table-does-it-in-bronze/ #bronzecasting #woodworking #homehacks #furniture #metalwork #casting #bronze

Automatic Pill Dispenser Is Cheap and Convenient - If you’re taking any medication, you probably need to take it in a certain dose on... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/automatic-pill-dispenser-is-cheap-and-convenient/ #3dprinterhacks #pilldispenser #piezosensor #homehacks #esp32 #piezo

Shedding Light on Quantum Measurement with Calcite - Have you ever struggled with the concept of quantum measurement, feeling it’s unne... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/26/shedding-light-on-quantum-measurement-with-calcite/ #quantummeasurement #quantummechanics #entanglement #laserhacks #homehacks #science #calcite #photons #optics #light #news

Logging Baby’s Day in Linux - There’s plenty of surprises to be had when you become a parent, and one of the fir... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/07/logging-babys-day-in-linux/ #raspberrypi #linuxhacks #homehacks #database #systemd #tracker #apache #infant #baby

PoE-Power Protection: The Hornet Nest Alarm Panel - Have you ever thought of giving new buzz to outdated wired alarm systems or saving... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/04/poe-power-protection-the-hornet-nest-alarm-panel/ #poweroverethernet #home-assistant #securityhacks #alarmpanel #homehacks #esphome #wesp32 #esp32 #poe #usb

Let it Snow with a sub $100 snowmaking machine. - [Mattmopar] figured out how to get a white Christmas even if the weather isn’t fri... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/28/let-it-snow-with-a-sub-100-snowmaking-machine/ #pressurewasher #homehacks #snowmaker #snowmakre

Uncanny Valley of Clean Conquered by Clever Chair - Do you ever have clothes that you only wore for a few hours, so you don’t want to ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/27/uncanny-valley-of-clean-conquered-by-clever-chair/ #simonegiertz #homehacks #furniture #clothing #laundry #chair

Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support - If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hacker... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/holiday-jukebox-gets-esp32-home-assistant-support/ #microcontrollers #homeautomation #home-assistant #holidayhacks #homehacks #retrofit #esp32

Custom Firmware For Even Cheaper Bluetooth Thermometers - Readers may recall when we first covered the $5 Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC temperature and ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/21/custom-firmware-for-even-cheaper-bluetooth-thermometers/ #replacementfirmware #customfirmware #home-assistant #softwarehacks #homehacks #bluetooth #xiaomi #tuya

Building a Diet Coke Button - [mars91] had an interesting problem to solve—his girlfriend often requested Diet C... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/20/building-a-diet-coke-button/ #callbutton #homehacks #dietcoke #esp32

Measuring a Well with Just a Hammer and a Smartphone - What’s the best way to measure the depth of a well using a smartphone? If you’re f... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/19/measuring-a-well-with-just-a-hammer-and-a-smartphone/ #smartphone #homehacks #audacity #science #sonar #sound #echo #ping #well

Learning About The Flume Water Monitor - The itch to investigate lurks within all us hackers. Sometimes, you just have to p... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/learning-about-the-flume-water-monitor/ #reverseengineering #watersensor #watermeter #homehacks #flume #water

ESP8266 Keeps Tabs on Wood Stove Temperature - Wood heat offers unique advantages compared to more modern heating systems, especi... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/esp8266-keeps-tabs-on-wood-stove-temperature/ #microcontrollers #homeassisstant #homehacks #woodstove #chimney #esphome #heating #max6675

A Look inside IKEA’s Vallhorn Motion Sensor Teardown - A good source of hackable home automation parts has come for a while in the form o... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/a-look-inside-ikeas-vallhorn-motion-sensor-teardown/ #homehacks #teardown #zigbee #ikea #pir

Exercise Wheel Tracker Confirms Suspicions About Cats - What do cats get up to in the 30 minutes or so a day that they’re awake? Being jer... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/05/exercise-wheel-tracker-confirms-suspicions-about-cats/ #opensearch #homehacks #exercise #m5stack #zoomies #feline #esp32 #cat

The Automatic Battery Charger You Never Knew You Needed - When we saw [Max.K]’s automatic NiMh battery charger float past in the Hackaday ti... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/02/the-automatic-battery-charger-you-never-knew-you-needed/ #batterycharger #homehacks #rp2040 #nimh

Making a Stool from Clay - We’ve seen furniture made out of all sorts of interesting materials here, but clay... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/30/making-a-stool-from-clay/ #homehacks #furniture #chair #stool #clay #kiln #art

Massive Mural from Thermal Receipt Paper - Turning trash into art is something we undoubtedly all admire. [Davis DeWitt] did ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/massive-mural-from-thermal-receipt-paper/ #softwarehacks #receiptpaper #thermalpaper #homehacks #printing #mural #paper #news #art