Collaborate Disseminate
If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with buttons is one that’s covered in LEDs — so …read more Continue reading Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
If you want to add humidity and temperature sensors to your home automation sensor, you can — like [Maker’s Fun Duck] did — buy some generic ones for about a …read more Continue reading Cheap Sensor Changes Personality
Radar made a huge impact when it was first invented, allowing objects to be detected using radio waves which would normally be difficult or impossible to observe through other means. …read more Continue reading Adding Human Detection to Home Automation
[Mellow_Labs] wanted an Everything Presence Lite kite but found it was always out of stock. Therefore, he decided to create his own. The kit uses a millimeter wave sensor as …read more Continue reading Roll Your Own Presence Sensor
Over the last decade or so, we’ve been inundated with appliances with wireless or “smart” technology that is often of dubious utility. No one really needs a tablet in their …read more Continue reading Automatic Garbage Can Keeps Cooking Cleaner
Modern tech is great, but we have to admit that we sometimes miss when electronic things looked complicated. A modern computer looks dull compared to, say, an IBM 360. Control …read more Continue reading Home Automation Panel Looks Industrial
[Markus] grabbed an ESP32 and created a good-looking e-ink dashboard that can act as a status display for Home Automation. However, the hardware is generic enough that it could work …read more Continue reading Home Assistant Display Uses E-Ink
Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide availability of products on the market, hackers and makers are still spinning up their own solutions. It …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In
While there’s still something undeniably cool about the flip-open communicators used in the original Star Trek, the fact is, they don’t really look all that futuristic compared to modern mobile …read more Continue reading Combadge Project Wants to Bring Trek Tech to Life
Power distribution units, as the name implies, are indispensable tools to have available in a server rack. They can handle a huge amount of power for demands of intensive computing …read more Continue reading A Smart Power Distribution Unit for Home Automation