There’s something unusually exciting about opening the ESPHome Starter Kit. This isn’t just another ESP32 development board.

The ESP32 is a tiny microcontroller that you can pick up for a few dollars. Thanks to its small footprint and low barrier to entry, it’s perfect for powering a variety of simple smart home projects ...

Over the years we’ve seen countless ways of displaying the current time, and judging by how many new clock projects that hit the tip line, it seems as though there’s no end in sight. Not that we’re ...

Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class delivered a bumper crop of ESP-32 projects this year. The student teams recorded their progress on hackaday.io with project descriptions, logs, ...

A seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, Chandraveer brings more than four years of consumer tech journalism experience to the table, with bylines at Android Police and ...

The biggest technical challenge was not turning the LEDs on but synchronizing the image with the rotation. The system uses an ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Receives pixel data over a high-speed 40MHz SPI bus to update the ILI9341 screen. Applies small timing delays to keep ...