How a $5 radar sensor turns an ESP32 into a weather display that wakes when you walk up
The great thing about ESP32 projects is that often someone else has done all the hard work for you. For…
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This ESP32 project gave my office a “mood ring” that reacts to calendar events, the weather, and more
My kids bought mood rings in the summer that change color, supposedly to reflect your current mood. This gave me…
7 Home Assistant features I wish I’d started using sooner
I’ve been using Home Assistant for more than a decade, but I still come across things I’ve never seen before.…
$455 worth of subscriptions you can replace with Home Assistant
Home Assistant isn’t just a great way to control your smart home locally and privately, but it can also save…
Your smart home is probably already running AI-written code, and you can’t avoid it even if you want to
Whatever your personal feelings on using AI in coding, plenty of people are happy to take advantage of tools like…
Stop buying a new ESP32 for every sensor — your Bluetooth proxy has spare pins
ESP32 boards can be incredibly cheap. They’re so cheap that it’s easy to fall into the habit of using a…
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…
I turned this ESP32 into a Tamagotchi nobody asked for
My kids have gotten a little obsessed with Tamagotchis recently, so my home is full of the sound of incessant…
4 subscriptions you can replace with a $10 ESP32
Even when you buy a product outright, you may still need to pay a subscription to access all of its…
I let my smart home devices chat in Discord and it was hilariously disappointing
We ask our smart home devices to do a lot for us, and rarely spare a moment to think about…