If you've been staring at Excel all week at work, the last thing you probably want to do this weekend is open another spreadsheet. Except Excel gets surprisingly interesting when ...

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A Home Assistant user came up with an ingenious solution. It uses an ESP32-based M5Stack CoreS3 SE combined with an M5Stack SIM800L cellular module and an M5GO Battery Bottom3. ESPHome runs on the ...

That year, Maker Faire Tokyo was held in October. 'I want to bring something.' With that thought in mind, I started another ...

ESPHome is the sole reason I was able to build several ESP32 smart sensors without losing my patience ...

What can a teenager build from a small room at home? For many, it might be a school project or a weekend experiment. But for 17-year-old Hiten Dharpure from Nagpur, Maharashtra, that modest workspace ...

I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn’t seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They are ...

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Tim has been covering technology for almost 20 years, in that time spanning a broad range of topics from security to product reviews. He is especially focused on the Apple ecosystem, productivity, and ...

When you think of Arduino projects, your mind likely goes straight to RFID door locks, weather sensors, or automated plant watering systems. While these are undeniably pretty cool projects, you might ...

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Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...