Smart Home Gets A Custom Keypad Controller
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/smart-home-gets-a-custom-keypad-controller/

Voice assistants and smartphones are often the go-to interfaces for modern smart home systems. However, if you fancy more direct physical controls, you can go that route as well. To …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/smart-home-gets-a-custom-keypad-controller/)

Fully-Local AI Agent Runs on Raspberry Pi, With a Little Patience
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/fully-local-ai-agent-runs-on-raspberry-pi-with-a-little-patience/

[Simone]’s AI assistant, dubbed Max Headbox, is a wakeword-triggered local AI agent capable of following instructions and doing simple tasks. It’s an experiment in many ways, but also a great …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/fully-local-ai-agent-runs-on-raspberry-pi-with-a-little-patience/)

A Walk Down PC Video Card Memory Lane
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/a-walk-down-pc-video-card-memory-lane/

These days, video cards are virtually supercomputers. When they aren’t driving your screen, they are decoding video, crunching physics models, or processing large-language model algorithms. But it wasn’t always like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/a-walk-down-pc-video-card-memory-lane/)

Decorate Your Neck with The First Z80 Badge
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/decorate-your-neck-with-the-first-z80-badge/

Over the years, we’ve brought you many stories of the creative artwork behind electronic event badges, but today we may have a first for you. [Spencer] thinks nobody before him …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/decorate-your-neck-with-the-first-z80-badge/)

Hackaday Links: September 28, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/hackaday-links-september-28-2025/

In today’s “News from the Dystopia” segment, we have a story about fighting retail theft with drones. It centers on Flock Safety, a company that provides surveillance technologies, including UAVs, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/hackaday-links-september-28-2025/)

Playing DOOM In Discord With a Special Image URL
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/playing-doom-in-discord-with-a-special-image-url/

Can you play DOOM in Discord? At first glance, that may seem rather nonsensical, as Discord is a proprietary chat service and neither a hardware device nor something else that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/playing-doom-in-discord-with-a-special-image-url/)

WALL-E’s Forgotten Sibling Rebuilt
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/wall-es-forgotten-sibling-rebuilt/