ESP32

I have written code before. Once upon a time I was even trained as a software developer, though I never ended up using that skill professionally. I do still write code and firmware now and then. But …

The Fri3d Camp 2024 badge is an ESP32-S3, which makes it a first-class target for ESPHome — and therefore a native citizen of Home Assistant. This post documents a complete ESPHome configuration for …

Every Fri3d Camp hands out a badge, and the 2024 one is a serious little machine: an ESP32-S3 with a 2-inch colour LCD, five NeoPixels, a joystick, a buzzer, an IMU and a microSD slot — all in a …

Twice a day, every day, the Royal Meteorological Institute launches a weather balloon from Uccle, just south of Brussels. Hanging under it is a small styrofoam box — a radiosonde — that climbs to …

The RunCam Thumb is a tiny action camera — genuinely about the size of a thumb, and weighing almost nothing — that has become the default way to record onboard video in FPV and in rocketry . The …

Every day my kids come home from school and stand at the front door. Every time I want to know if I should start dinner or if the washing machine is still running, I pull out my phone, open the Home …

Last month we visited MakerFaire in Ghent. Among the 3D printers, robot arms, and LED installations, one project caught my kids’ attention more than anything else: a small wooden box with a …