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LEGO RC Submarine With Arduino Nano ESP32 This LEGO Toy Became an RC Submarine with an Arduino Nano ESP32 and a 400g Moving Weight That Controls Pitch

The Brick Experiment Youtube Channel has built RC Submarine 5.0, a LEGO-based remotely controlled submarine designed to improve on the previous…

ESP32 Module Displays Sick AI Pet ESP32-Based AI Pet Gets Sick If You Doomscroll, While Android Handles Local LLMs, STT, and TTS Offline

Maker and Youtuber, Brenpoly recently built an offline AI virtual pet that lives on an ESP32 and “gets sick” when you doomscroll too much, turning…

ESP32 S3 Pocket PC Running Tactility OS Maker Turns an ESP32 S3 Into a Pocket PC by Porting Open Source Tactility OS to a 2.4 Inch Touch Display

This project transforms a compact MaTouch Lite development board into a fully functional, portable touchscreen computer. The project uses an ESP32…

DEFCON 34 Badge With Transparent Open-Source Chip DEFCON 34's Badge Had a Hackable Open-Source Chip You Could Shine Infrared Through to Inspect Its Design

Every year, DEFCON’s electronic badge becomes one of the most talked-about pieces of hardware in the security community, and the DEFCON 34 badge…

Fennec Open Source Handheld Radio Decoding SSTV Fenix: An Open-Source SI4732 + ESP32S3 Radio That Decodes SSTV Images and Morse Code From Shortwave Signals

A small open-source handheld radio called Fennec is turning the ESP32-S3 into much more than a conventional AM/FM receiver. Built around the…

A 3D-Printed Bipedal Robot Named Stompy Walking Maker Builds a Fully 3D-Printed 6-DOF Bipedal Robot “Stompy” Using NVIDIA Jetson in Just 3 Days

In an impressive display of rapid prototyping and engineering grit, creator Kayden Knapik successfully designed, built, and programmed a fully 3D-…

Tiny Satellite Barely 21 Grams, This Satellite Prototype Tracks the Environment & Motion With ESP32-C3 & Tiny Sensors

A tiny satellite prototype weighing just 21 grams is showing how far small-scale electronics can be pushed when size…

Playable Real-World Mario Level With Treadmill A Playable IRL Mario Level Built Around a Raspberry Pi Where Enemies Have Sensors That Trigger Shocks

A maker from Electo Youtube channel has transformed Super Mario Bros. into a playable real-world electronics project that combines…

Compact STM32 GPS Device Displaying Planets Above This STM32 GPS Device Shows Which Planets Are Above You Offline, Fitting 5 Years of Orbits in 64KB

What if a tiny electronic device could look at the sky without a camera or telescope and tell you which planets are currently above the horizon?…

Small Quadruped Robot Playing Soccer On Field Maker Built His Quadruped Robots a Soccer Field Where Ball Tracking Improved With Less Accurate Camera Data

A maker built a miniature soccer environment for Sesame, a small quadruped robot, and demonstrated the system at the 2026 Open Sauce maker event.…