Learn how to turn old appliances into smart, Wi-Fi-enabled devices with ESP8266 and ESPHome. DIY automation made simple for your home.

The ESP8266 is a great processor for a lot of projects needing a small microcontroller and Wi-Fi, all for a reasonable price and in some pretty small form factors. [Simon] used one to build a garage ...

The Las Vegas Sphere is great and all, but few of us can afford the expense to travel to out there to see it on the regular. If you’re looking for similar vibes you can access at home, you ...

Sebastian Starks said, 'Game Boy can connect to Wi-Fi' by modifying the cartridge inserted in the Game Boy instead of modifying the Game Boy itself, which is a portable game machine released in 1989.

Hacker Sebastian Staacks had done the seemingly impossible. Using a basic 32 kiB Game Boy cartridge and an ESP8266 micro controller he’s created the first Game Boy capable of browsing the web. Why is ...

Tiny Apple Potato: While criminals are working hard to turn retro gaming into a viable (though unlawful) business venture, law-abiding fans of everything retro are using 3D printers to replicate their ...

The best thing that came out of the last generation of consoles wasn’t actually a video game, it was Kinect. Microsoft shipped millions of units of this weird sensor, and then hardly anybody made ...

Open-hardware platforms enable rapid prototyping and faster time-to-market of new IoT applications. The objective of this post is to give a brief introduction to another open-hardware IoT playground — ...