IR sensors are one of the simplest ways to detect the presence of an object, but connecting a sensor to a microcontroller is only the first step toward building a useful IoT system. In this project, I ...

Highlights include advanced AI photo-editing tools, a three-band equalizer for AirPods, a more customizable Lock Screen and a significantly more capable Siri. But that’s really just scratching the ...

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True preemptive multitasking on a bare ESP8266 — no RTOS — using one hardware timer and a well-written Xtensa context switch. What I really wanted was the thing a proper RTOS gives you: several ...

I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn’t seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They are ...

An IoT monitoring system built using ESP8266 and DHT11. The device measures temperature and humidity and displays the data on a real-time web dashboard.

We’ve tested almost a dozen options that handle everything from scheduling and weather changes to water conservation, so you don’t have to. Planting a garden or laying down sod for your yard is the ...

A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly surprising to see someone port it to ...