The Framework laptop will no doubt already have caught the eye of more than one Hackaday reader, as a machine designed for upgrade and expansion by its users. One of its key features is a system of ...

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I'm a big fan of the ESP32, and I have a few different boards that I play around with. I have two of the "classic" ESP32 microcontrollers, an ESP32-C6 with Zigbee and Thread support, and an ESP32-S3.

Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a ...

The T-Display AMOLED Touch ESP32 is an advanced version of the well-known ESP32 board, now equipped with a touch interface. This addition transforms the board into a more interactive platform, ...

To enable intelligent chess play, the project uses Stockfish, a free open-source chess engine that decides the robot’s moves. Python programming connects the ESP32, sensors, and the Stockfish engine, ...

Open-hardware platforms enable rapid prototyping and faster time-to-market of new IoT applications. The objective of this post is to give a brief introduction to another open-hardware IoT playground — ...

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

The Chinese chip manufacturer Espressif is known for its cheap and widely used microcontrollers with integrated WLAN, ESP8266 and ESP32. The new ESP32-P4 is significantly more powerful because it ...

My first foray into the IoT utilized the Espressif ESP8266, an SoC with 32-bit MCU and 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi built in. Since then, I have used many different module variants based on the microcontroller. So ...