Surveillance cameras from Flock Safety have become a controversial privacy battleground, as the communities in which they are installed wake up to their sinister potential, and stories roll in of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/surveillance-camera-security-its-completely-flocked/)

Building a DIY Centrifuge For Blood Processing
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/building-a-diy-centrifuge-for-blood-processing/

If you want to do certain types of lab work with blood, you’ll need a centrifuge. It’s often possible to find serviceable units on the used market, but they may …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/building-a-diy-centrifuge-for-blood-processing/)

TV Audio Tube Makes a Transceiver
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/tv-audio-tube-makes-a-transceiver/

It’s not often we see a tube project here, so [Helge Fykse]’s PCL86 transceiver is a welcome find. If you know anything about the European Pro-Electron device naming system you’ll …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/tv-audio-tube-makes-a-transceiver/)

Meta Portal Given New Life As Extended Display
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/meta-portal-given-new-life-as-extended-display/

The Meta Portal and associated devices are effectively defunct, having been abandoned by the company in 2022. If you’ve still got one at home, you might be wondering what to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/meta-portal-given-new-life-as-extended-display/)

This Week in Security: Flock Cameras Are Old, Microsoft Patches Patches, and Researchers attack SSH
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/this-week-in-security-flock-cameras-are-old-microsoft-patches-patches-and-researchers-attack-ssh/

Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents.  Apparently the Flock …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/this-week-in-security-flock-cameras-are-old-microsoft-patches-patches-and-researchers-attack-ssh/)

Brain Control Your Appliance, Sort Of
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/brain-control-your-appliance-sort-of/

We aren’t sure we subscribe to [Upside Down Labs] description that their Neuro PlayGround Lite (NPG Lite) actually constitutes brain control in the science fiction sense. However, the package can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/brain-control-your-appliance-sort-of/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 387: Superhuman Clocks, CAN in USB-C, and the Joys of Bare Metal
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/hackaday-podcast-episode-387-superhuman-clocks-can-in-usb-c-and-the-joys-of-bare-metal/

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the benefits of modeling …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/18/hackaday-podcast-episode-387-superhuman-clocks-can-in-usb-c-and-the-joys-of-bare-metal/)