--- title: "Hackaday Links: January 25, 2026" url: https://daily.dev/posts/hackaday-links-january-25-2026-4tkwlsmpg source_url: https://hackaday.com/2026/01/25/hackaday-links-january-25-2026/ type: article source: "Hackaday" published: 2026-01-26T00:22:56.108Z updated: 2026-03-15T05:30:23.556Z tags: ["embedded", "hardware", "iot", "raspberry-pi"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hackaday Links: January 25, 2026 **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly roundup of tech news and stories including a major winter storm affecting the US, an entrepreneur detained in Switzerland after his ESP32-based prototype was mistaken for a spy device (he admitted using AI to write code he didn't understand), an x-ray analysis comparing genuine and counterfeit FTDI cables showing design quality differences, a performance comparison across all Raspberry Pi generations with the Pi 5 winning, and a report on Albedo's successful Very Low Earth Orbit satellite mission. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Hackaday Links: February 1, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/hackaday-links-february-1-2026-t7njeyn9v) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hackaday Links: July 12, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/hackaday-links-july-12-2026-jdsocf8q4) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hackaday Links: March 22, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/hackaday-links-march-22-2026-obg4t1mlu) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#embedded](https://daily.dev/tags/embedded), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#iot](https://daily.dev/tags/iot), [#raspberry-pi](https://daily.dev/tags/raspberry-pi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/hackaday-links-january-25-2026-4tkwlsmpg)