Collaborate Disseminate
[Zak] loves getting a notification on his phone when he gets physical mail. Enough to wire his mailbox slot with an ESP8285 to send him alerts. Previously, [Zak] used a …read more Continue reading Moving The Snail Mail To WiFi
There are no weird, specialized components nor esoteric sleep mode tricks behind the long battery life of [Zak]’s WiFi mail slot watcher. Just some sensible design and clever focus on …read more Continue reading Snail Mail Notifier’s Simple Power Management To Maximize Battery Life
It is a pretty stale dad joke to tell someone you have ESP when you mean you have an ESP8266 or ESP32 in your hand. However, [Naufil Metkar] uses an …read more Continue reading For the ESP’s Next ESP Trick…
Newly released CIA documents ask the important question: Is ESP compatible with Marxism? Continue reading CIA Document Claims Soviet Union Was Developing Cybernetic Telepathy
To date, e-paper technology has been great for two things, displaying static black and white text and luring hackers with the promise of a display that is easy on the eyes and runs forever. But poor availability of bare panels has made the second (we would say more important) goal …read more
Continue reading Templateize your Timetable with EPaper Templates
Attackers are taking aim at Fortnite’s global community of 250 million gamers. Continue reading Fortnite Ransomware Masquerades as an Aimbot Game Hack
The ESP8266 is a great processor for a lot of projects needing a small microcontroller and Wi-Fi, all for a reasonable price and in some pretty small form factors. [Simon] used one to build a garage door opener. This project isn’t really about his garage door opener based on a …read more
Continue reading Four Years Of Learning ESP8266 Development Went Into This Guide
The regular Hackaday reader no longer needs to be reminded about how popular the ESP8266 is; they see the evidence of that several times a day. But what might not be quite so obvious is that it isn’t just us hacker types that are in love with the inexpensive IoT …read more
Streaming music may now come from somewhere in the cloud to an app on your phone and be sent to the client built in to almost every entertainment device you own, but there was a time when the bleeding edge lay in dedicated streaming device that connected to your existing …read more
The Internet of Things is upon us, and with that comes a deluge of smart cameras, smart home monitors, and smart home locks. There actually aren’t many smarts in these smart conveniences, and you can easily build your own. That’s what [MakerMan] did with some off-the-shelf parts and just a …read more