iot & smart home
A Raspberry Pi and YOLOv8 Read This Gas Meter Automatically
Cian Gallagher trained a YOLOv8 Nano model on a Raspberry Pi 4 to read his gas meter automatically and log it to Home Assistant.…
arduino
Arduino UNO Q Smart Doorbell Keeps Your Video Off the Cloud
An open-source Arduino UNO Q doorbell runs person-detection AI on-device and pushes snapshots over Telegram, no cloud servers required.
diy projects
PocketBeagle 2 Security Camera: Fully Offline, No Cloud
Build a home security camera that runs person detection on-device and never touches the cloud, powered by the PocketBeagle 2 and a custom PCB.
diy projects
Build a Fully Offline Privacy Security Camera on PocketBeagle 2
Clem Mayer built a fully offline security camera on the PocketBeagle 2 that runs person detection locally and keeps every frame off the cloud.
diy projects
PocketBeagle 2 Powers an Offline, Privacy-First Security Camera
Clem Mayer built a cloud-free security camera on the PocketBeagle 2 that detects people locally and keeps every frame of video at home.
iot & smart home
Inky Bird Frame: A Raspberry Pi E-Paper Display of Local Birds
A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and a six-color e-paper frame that auto-displays field-guide art of birds spotted near your home.
arduino
Weekend Build: A Self-Cleaning Solar Tracker on Arduino UNO Q
An Arduino UNO Q panel that tracks the sun, vibrates off its own dust, and hides from storms. Fully open source, and a solid…
esp32 & esp8266
Solar Devboard V1: An ESP32-C6 Sensor Node That Charges Itself
Andrei Pokotylo's Solar Devboard V1 packs an ESP32-C6 and a BQ25186 charger so remote sensor nodes top up their own battery from an 18…
esp32 & esp8266
Build a Solar-Powered IoT Node with This ESP32-C6 Board
An ESP32-C6 dev board built for solar IoT: BQ25186 charging, reverse-voltage protection, QWIIC I2C, and ten GPIO pins for cable-free sensor nodes.
iot & smart home
Run OpenClaw: Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into an Agentic AI Sidekick
OpenClaw lets an AI agent act on its own, and a Raspberry Pi is the safest sandbox to run it. Here is what the…
esp32 & esp8266
FGRFMesh Brings Open Sub-GHz Mesh Networking to ESP32 & STM32
Crowded Wi-Fi pushing you out? FGRFMesh is an open 868 MHz mesh platform for ESP32 and STM32 that makes sub-GHz networking refreshingly hackable.