The Framework laptop will no doubt already have caught the eye of more than one Hackaday reader, as a machine designed for upgrade and expansion by its users. One of its key features is a system of ...

These tiny boards are now a key part of my Home Assistant automation pipelines ...

Cruise around AliExpress for long enough and you’ll find some interesting new hardware. The latest is the TTGO T-Call, an ESP32 breakout board that also has a cellular modem. Yes, it’s only a 2G modem ...

Cheap builds that can save serious money.

What if the future of IoT didn’t depend on Wi-Fi? Imagine deploying a fleet of sensors in the remotest corners of the world, tracking wildlife, monitoring environmental changes, or managing logistics, ...

Our team designed and built a fully functional prototype from the ground up. We handled the firmware, the PCB layout, the 3D ...

But can we extend the capabilities of a $5 ESP32-CAM module to build something similar? In this project, we are going to ...

My first foray into the IoT utilized the Espressif ESP8266, an SoC with 32-bit MCU and 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi built in. Since then, I have used many different module variants based on the microcontroller. So ...

A mid-sized manufacturing client came to us with a familiar pain point. Their production floor had no real-time visibility into equipment status. When a conveyor motor overheated or a compressor ...

Most people assume object tracking for autonomous flight is very complex, but it doesn’t have to be that way. All you need is a different way of looking at the problem. We built this project to see if ...