[Simon Monk] got frustrated with bad ADC performance when tinkering with an ESP32 board, and decided to put three of the nowadays-iconic boards to the test – a classic ESP32 devboard, a Pi Pico with ...

I retired the expensive commercial smart home hubs and rebuilt my smart home from scratch.

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The Waveshare ESP32-P4-Nano is a tiny, inexpensive, low-power development board powered by a dual-core RISC-V processor. Available now from Waveshare or AliExpress for around $19 and up, the little ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

Looking to write Rust on the ESP32? You’re in luck, a new challenger has entered the scene, looking to help you write code that lasts – [Scott Mabin] and the team from Espressif have brought us the ...

The CL-32 is a work-in-progress pocket-sized PC that combines modern hardware with classic design inspired by systems from the 1980s like the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. While some details haven’t been ...

Remember the good old PDAs or Personal Digital Assistants that people used for taking notes, keeping schedules, keeping a tab on contacts, and such stuff? Here is what can be said as a modern take on ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...