Last year, Semtech released the LR2021 LoRa Plus transceiver chip, designed to address the low data-rate issue associated with LoRa, but surprisingly, ...

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics ...

Home Assistant isn't the only smart home management utility in my FOSS toolkit ...

Voice control has become an integral part of modern smart home automation. In this tutorial, we build a voice-controlled LED system using the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 development board, combining wake word ...

As a voice interaction entry, the XiaoZhi AI chatbot leverages the AI capabilities of large models like Qwen / DeepSeek, and achieves multi-terminal control via the MCP protocol. The current v2 ...

Abstract: This paper presents a comparative study in the working methodologies of the Bare Metal and the FreeRTOS programming for the STM32 board. Both these methods were programmed for a single ...

Free File is not Direct File, which the IRS has discontinued for the 2026 tax season. This tax season, according to the IRS, eight private-sector partners are offering guided tax software products ...

What is ESP32 Text to Speech and Why Use AI-Based Solutions? Text-to-speech may look simple, but it requires several important steps. Initially, the text is prepared for speech by converting numbers ...

Abstract: The research discusses the architecture and realization of a real-time embedded system based on STM32 microcontrollers and Free RTOS with the specification of complex scheduling algorithms.

EmbLED (Embedded LED) is a lightweight, dependency-free, and RTOS-agnostic C library for LED control on embedded systems. Designed for reliability, simplicity, and minimal resource usage. Each LED can ...