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MakerNews - April 2026
Welcome to the April 2026 Maker News round up
A bumper batch this month, with a strong streak of “but does it really need to do that?” running through it. A toaster that runs Doom (and refuses to pop your toast until you’ve finish...
MakerNews - March 2026
Welcome to the March 2026 MakerNews
There’s a nice mix this week—some careful, almost sculptural builds, some scrappy hacks, and a few projects that feel like they probably started as “let’s just see if this works” and spiralled from th...
MakerNews - February 2026
Welcome to the February 2026 MakerNews
February’s batch has a clear theme: tiny computers pretending to be other things.
There’s a lot of USB shenanigans this month. Two different ESP32 webcams (one of them thermal), a USB-C nul...
MakerNews - January 2026
Welcome to the January 2026 MakerNews
Welcome to the January 2026 edition of MakerNews — where smart tools get smarter, dumb tools get upgraded, and “why does this even have Wi-Fi?” continues to be a perfectly reasonable question. This m...
MakerNews - December 2025 Update
🧠 2025: A Year of Curious Builds, Clever Hacks, and Chaos
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s been another year where the maker spirit - that mix of ingenuity, improvisation, curiosity, and occasional glorious failure - showed up in every i...
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