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The ESP32-S3 AIoT Basic is a low-cost, learning, and prototyping kit for the ESP32-S3. The board integrates common AIoT peripherals directly onto a single PCB, making the design part easy for ...

What if the future of IoT didn’t depend on Wi-Fi? Imagine deploying a fleet of sensors in the remotest corners of the world, tracking wildlife, monitoring environmental changes, or managing logistics, ...

[Paul McCabe] wrote in to let us know about his $25 robot. This small wheeled robot is based on an ESP32 and made using cardboard and hot glue. You drive the contraption using a Bluetooth game ...

The original ESP32 may be a little long in the tooth by now, but it remains a potent tool for connected devices. We were drawn to [Max Pflaum]’s ESP32 Dashboard as a great example, it’s an ESP32 ...

Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking & Impersonation Due to Hidden Commands Your email has been sent Billions of devices worldwide rely on a widely used Bluetooth-Wi-Fi chip that contains ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

Managing libraries for Arduino boards has traditionally been a time-consuming and error-prone process. Developers often had to manually search for, download, and configure libraries, which could be ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

Save water by disabling the sprinklers when ground moisture is sufficient. Power a 0.35-2kW borehole pump that supplies water to a sprinkler system. Measure pump amperage to protect the pump.