Open-Source Hardware Digest — Week 44, 2026
Retro & Playful Projects
- Patch Commodore 64 Kernal Roms to remap keyboard
- Snake On a Seven-Segment Display is Gloriously Bad (Source: Hackaday)
- OuijaCNC (Source: Raspberry Pi News)
- Taylor Waddell Made a Working BART Gate Halloween Costume (Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers)
Embedded Hardware & Boards
- A magnetic lock opens by magic
- How Techno Sky and Arduino Opta brought an industrial visual emergency signaling solution to air traffic management (Source: Arduino Blog)
- Azume One – A 2.8mm sensor that turns any regular wristwatch into a health tracker (Crowdfunding) (Source: CNX Software – Embedded Systems News)
- $26 Banana Pi BPI-RT2 WiFi 6 router board features Realtek RTL8198D dual-core MIPS SoC (Source: CNX Software – Embedded Systems News)
Culture & Creative Tech
Security & Community
- This Week in Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping, and a DHS Directory Dump (Source: Hackaday)
- 10 Things I Can’t Wait to See at Maker Faire Orlando (Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers)