We spent weeks testing the best metal detectors on the market. Here are our top six picks. Purchasing one of the best metal detectors is the first step to kicking off your exciting new hobby. These ...

Walk-through metal detectors (aka the ones which you often see at public places like airports) seem to be pretty simple machines. You walk through them, they detect anything metal on you (or don't), ...

A traditional early project for someone discovering a love for electronics has been for many years a metal detector. This would mean a few transistors back in the day, but today it’s more likely to ...

A metal detector used to be an entirely analogue instrument, an oscillator whose frequency changed with the inductance of its sense coil when a piece of metal approached. [Łukasz Podkalicki] shows us ...

Editor's Note: January 29, 2026: We've checked to make sure that our recommendations are still available and competitively priced. We’re in the process of testing a new round of metal detectors to ...