Collaborate Disseminate
A good source of hackable home automation parts has come for a while in the form of inexpensive modules offered by large retailers such as Lidl, or IKEA. They’re readily …read more Continue reading A Look inside IKEA’s Vallhorn Motion Sensor Teardown
Over at the University of Wisconsin’s Undergraduate Projects Lab (UPL) there’s been a way to check whether this room is open for general use by CS undergraduates and others practically …read more Continue reading Keeping Tabs on an Undergraduate Projects Lab’s Door Status
With the increase in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their need to communicate wirelessly, there’s been a corresponding explosion of wireless protocols to chose from. Of course …read more Continue reading Converting Bluetooth Sensors to Zigbee
Working towards automating a few things in a home often seems simple on the surface, but it’s easy for these projects to snowball into dozens of sensors and various servos, …read more Continue reading A Lightweight Smart Home Server
Whether it’s because they’re concerned about worsening pollution or the now endemic variants of COVID-19, a whole lot of people have found themselves in the market for a home air …read more Continue reading Taking Apart IKEA’s Latest Air Quality Sensor
Just like the clock clock of old, there’s something magical about a giant wall of smaller pieces working together to make a larger version of that thing. The E-Paper Wall …read more Continue reading E-Paper Wall Paper
E-paper price tags have become popular for retail stores over the past few years, which is great for hackers since we now have some more cheap commodity hardware to play …read more Continue reading E-paper Price Tags Combined To Create A Large Wireless Display
It seems that the folks at Espressif are doing their best to produce chips to fit every possible niche in the microcontroller-with-radio market, because here comes news of their latest …read more Continue reading New Part Day: An ESP With ZigBee
For years, Europeans have been browsing the central aisles of the German Aldi and Lidl supermarket chains, attracted by the surprising variety of transitory non-grocery bargains to be found there. …read more Continue reading Hacking The Lidl Home Gateway
Over the last decade or so, e-ink price tags have become more and more ubiquitous, and they’ve now reached the point where surplus devices can be found inexpensively on various …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive into E-Ink Tag Hacking