Recent DIY trends show makers increasingly turning to ESP32 microcontrollers and Arduino platforms for smart home projects, replacing costlier or overpowered setups like Raspberry Pi in many cases.

From your very first blinking LED to dazzling multi-color sequences, Arduino makes it easy to bring light to life. With just a board, a few LEDs, and some code, you can experiment with patterns, ...

Daniel Ansorregui has developed LightInk, an open-source solar-powered E-ink watch inspired by 90s solar digital watches. It ...

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Waveshare UGV Beast is an off-road robot with tracked wheels designed for Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 SBC handling AI vision and ...

If you were to point to a single device responsible for much of Hackaday’s early success, it might be the Arduino Uno. The ...

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, ...

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Bluetooth is baked into just about everything these days, from wireless earbuds and fitness trackers to laptops, cars, and smart home devices. In 2025 alone, there were an estimated 5.3 billion ...

An Arduino library for 7-segment display modules based on the TM1637 chip, such as Seeed Studio's Grove 4 digit display. The TM1637 chip also has keyboard input capability, but it's not implemented in ...

Measuring the speed of a rotating object is a common requirement. Knowing the speed of table and ceiling fans, as well as kitchen appliances such as mixers and grinders, can often be useful. However, ...

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