Why pay a premium for smart devices when an ESP32 and some cheap sensors can do everything for a fraction of the price?

ISE’s Mike Blackman explores how open standards like Matter, local AI hubs, and edge processing are bridging the gap between DIY devices and pro installs.

But for all its benefits, the smart home can be complicated, confusing, and occasionally maddening. It’s also hard to keep up with all the changes. New gadgets are arriving daily, new features come to ...

In March 2025, Seeed teased an XIAO e-paper panel on social media, prompting a community member to ask whether it could run ...

Echo Dot is more capable than ever with a built-in smart home hub, while a new Echo Studio gains a camera that lets Alexa+ ...

Build a DIY ESP32 LoRaWAN sensor node to track garden temperature and humidity from up to 600 meters away. Includes PCB ...

Life's too short for YAML.

You decide: Is an Alexa-powered map of your home, inside and out, a good thing?

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The cool thing about apps for smartwatches, especially Wear OS, is that they're already essentially designed as mini dashboards. The UI for a small screen needs to be stripped of non-essentials and ...

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