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I built a whole-home ad blocker with a $7 ESP32-S3 board - and it took just minutes ...

The ESP32 keeps finding new jobs in my house.

Five new Elektor courses help beginners take their first steps in microcontroller programming with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico. Each course combines hands-on projects, hardware kits, and ...

The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers can be hooked up with a wide range of compatible cameras. There are a number of first party options, but you don’t have to stick with those—there are ...

PCWorld demonstrates building a high-performance Raspberry Pi 5 computer with NVMe SSD storage for under $200, requiring the 8GB Pi 5, M.2 HAT, and compatible power ...

The .gif above illustrates the output of the test code where I applied pressure to the load cell. The HX711 chip was operating at 80Hz. However, note from the code that the value being used is the ...

Text-to-Speech, or TTS, is a technology that converts written text into spoken audio. It is widely used in voice assistants, accessibility tools, alert systems, kiosks, and smart devices. On computers ...

Adam has a degree in Engineering, having always been fascinated by how tech works. Tech websites have saved him hours of tearing his hair out on countless occasions, and he enjoys the opportunity to ...

From a raw performance standpoint, the Raspberry Pi 5 completely outclasses the Pi 4. Going from Arm Cortex-A72 in the Pi 4’s SoC to Cortex-A76 cores is a big jump in its own right as these cores are ...

FlashMyPico website allows you to write C code, build the firmware, and flash it to your Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico W, Pico 2, or Pico 2 W directly from a web browser instead of having to check out the ...