esp32 & esp8266
M5Stack Core Matrix: ESP32 Board With a 16×16 LED Grid
M5Stack's Core Matrix packs a 16x16 LED grid, ESP32-C61, IMU and Wi-Fi 6 into one board. See the specs and three classroom-ready project ideas.
esp32 & esp8266
Sesame: The 264-Gram ESP32 Quadruped Robot That Also Flies
Dorian Todd gave his $60 Sesame walker drone motors and cut it to 264 g. See how SG90 servos, leg stops and a split…
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Build a Private ESP32 Alarm Clock With Rouse Firmware
Rouse turns an ESP32-S3 touch board or Cheap Yellow Display into a bedside alarm clock with no account, no ads and no cloud. Here…
esp32 & esp8266
Waveshare ESP32-S31-Zero: Wi-Fi 6 RISC-V Board, 28×18 mm
Waveshare's ESP32-S31-Zero fits dual 320 MHz RISC-V cores, Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee and up to 32 MB PSRAM onto a 28x18 mm board that costs…
esp32 & esp8266
ESP32 Demoboard Adds 5 Sensor Projects: NFC, Lightning, Gestures
Five new Arduino demos for an ESP32 demoboard cover gesture sensing, lightning detection, NFC, air pressure and a PIR alarm. Pick one for your…
esp32 & esp8266
Olimex UEXT-CH390 Adds Wired Ethernet to ESP32 and Pico
Olimex's EUR 4.95 UEXT-CH390 brings 100 Mbit wired Ethernet to RP2040 and ESP32 boards, with ESPHome support. Here is a weekend plan to try…
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Weekend Build: ESP32 Game Boy Emulator on an ST7735 LCD
Engineeroids turned a spare ST7735 LCD and an ESP32 DevKit into a Game Boy emulator on perfboard. Here is the parts list and the…
esp32 & esp8266
Olimex UEXT-CH390 Adds Wired Ethernet to Pico and ESP32
A 4.95 EUR open source UEXT module gives Pico, Pico 2 and Wi-Fi-only ESP32 boards a wired 100 Mbit Ethernet link. Here is what…
esp32 & esp8266
ESP32-CAM Turns a Cheap Blood Pressure Monitor Smart
Tomasz Burzy gave a secondhand blood pressure monitor Wi-Fi by pointing an ESP32-CAM at its seven-segment display. No OCR, no reverse engineering.
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Sonicare Toothbrush NFC Chip Hacked With an ESP32-S3 and PN532
A Sonicare brush head hides a battery-free NFC chip. See how an ESP32-S3 and PN532 read its wear data and turn it into a…
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SAWbot: One-Motor Amphibious Robot Swims and Crawls on Land
SAWbot swims with a single motor and a traveling-wave membrane, hits 34 cm/s, then drives onto land on treads. Here is how a student…
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Digital Candle: ESP32-S3 and a 3,545-Parameter AI Flame
A tiny neural network on an ESP32-S3 paints a never-repeating flame across 144 amber LEDs. See how it works and how to try a…