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Maker Builds an Offline Wikipedia Using Maker Builds an Offline Wikipedia Using an ESP32 Board and Its Built-In microSD Card Slot to Store Data

Alun Morris’s Offline-Wikipedia using ESP32 is an open-source project that turns the inexpensive ESP32-2432S028, commonly called the “Cheap Yellow…

ESP32-P4 Powered Laptop-Free DJ System Setup This ESP32-P4 Turns a DJ Controller Into a Laptop-Free DJ System With Two Music Decks and Audio Mixing

A maker has built a standalone DJ system using the ESP32-P4, allowing a Pioneer DDJ-FLX4 DJ controller to work without a laptop running DJ…

DIY Yagi Antenna Built With Brass Rods A Maker Built a 2.4GHz DIY Yagi With 1mm Brass Rods That Improved ESP32 RSSI From −65dBm to −52dBm

A maker has built and tested a DIY 2.4-GHz directional Wi-Fi antenna using a 3D-printed frame and simple brass rods, showing how antenna geometry…

Hand Interacting With ESP32 Running KryonOS Interface A Solo Dev Built an OS for ESP32 Boards and Gave Its JavaScript Engine Direct Access to the Hardware

An open-source project called KryonOS is a GUI operating system for ESP32 microcontroller boards, built for use with a touch display and an SD…

Two Bicopters Connected By Cable Form Quadcopter Two Bicopters Linked by a Cable Use a Motorized Winch and Sensor to Transform Into a Quadcopter Mid-Air

Researchers led by R.Wang have developed a transformable aerial robot made from two small bicopters connected by a cable, allowing the system to…

ESP32 Smart Mailbox With Computer Vision ESP32-Based Smart Mailbox Uses Computer Vision to Detect Packages and Trigger Motorized Doors and Alerts

The project documents a fully automated smart mailbox built by Re-Crafting DIY. It integrates advanced electronics to solve practical issues like…

FPGA Board Recreating Google TPU Chip Design Engineer Recreates Google's TPU Chip Design on a $60 FPGA Using Systolic Arrays and Smart Approximation

A YouTube creator running the channel "traffic in the brain" has published a detailed walkthrough of building a small-scale AI accelerator from…

Radio Frequency Signal Eavesdropping On Wireless Headphones Researchers Show You Can Beam RF at a Stranger's Headphones and Eavesdrop on What They're Listening To

A team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University has demonstrated a new…

RP2350 Microcontroller Driving 1080p HDMI Output RP2350 Microcontroller Drives Full 1080p HDMI With No Framebuffer Using Scanline Technique

Aaron Gayle’s TV‑Top Kiosk project shows how to squeeze a full 1920×1080 HDMI signal out of a RP2350 microcontroller, which is seen in the popular…

Miniature Robot Poker Chip On Roulette Table A Tiny Robot Hides Inside a 3.5-mm Poker Chip to Cheat at Roulette With 433 MHz Radio and a Custom PCB

Kevin Coda of Concept Bytes Youtube channel built a tiny remote-controlled robot inside a poker chip for Mark Rober's CrunchLabs casino challenge…