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I love the Pi, but it's not always the best tool for the job.

AI smart speakers and AI-enabled home automation devices are widely adopted and continue to see strong demand. However, achieving seamless integration with a ...

The TMP117 is a high-precision digital temperature sensor developed by Texas Instruments (TI). It is designed for applications that demand accurate, stable, and low-power temperature measurements. It ...

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Olimex HoT (Home of Things) is a lightweight Smart Home solution designed to run on low-end hardware (128MB RAM, 128MB flash) ...

Advances in one area can unwittingly produce improvements in an entirely different field. Industrially manufactured multilayer capacitors (MLCs) are 1-cent electronic components 1 (Fig. 1a,b) that now ...

Home automation with high usefulness and low annoyance tends to rely on reliable person sensing, and [francescopace]’s ESPectre shows one way to do that cheaply and easily by leveraging ...

D0WD, a low-cost alternative to LilyGo T-Display, lets you mirror your desktop monitor over Wi-Fi with an ESP32 ...

The Sharp GP2AP03VT00F Time-Of-Flight sensor seems to be a nice part for makers and roboticists, focusing on good short distance sensing where other parts sometimes have problems. Alas, Sharp seems to ...

Abstract: This article proposes a temperature-humidity assembled sensor based on AlScN surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology for simultaneous monitoring of temperature and humidity. The assembled ...