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4 old gadgets an ESP32 can rescue and make useful again

Who would have thought that cheap microcontrollers would become such a booming business? The ESP32 is the culmination of years…

ESP32 boards can be incredibly cheap. They’re so cheap that it’s easy to fall into the habit of using a…

My kids have gotten a little obsessed with Tamagotchis recently, so my home is full of the sound of incessant…

Even when you buy a product outright, you may still need to pay a subscription to access all of its…

We ask our smart home devices to do a lot for us, and rarely spare a moment to think about…

We live in an increasingly digital world, but as Olivia Newton-John said, sometimes you just need to get physical. Here…

For many years, I built smart home automations that my family tolerated at best. It took a change of approach…

I miss the good old days when you had to queue for a movie, lining up outside the theater and…

If your child loves playing the same song over and over again (like mine), you no longer have to keep…

If something goes wrong in my home, like a pipe bursting, I would rather find out from a notification than…