Making Sure the Basement Stays Dry with an ESP8266 - The hack we have for you today is among our most favorite types of hack: a good, h... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/making-sure-the-basement-stays-dry-with-an-esp8266/ #microcontrollers #floodingmonitor #humiditymonitor #arduinoide #homehacks #hardware #esp8266 #bmp280 #aht20

Making Sure the Basement Stays Dry with an ESP8266 https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/making-sure-the-basement-stays-dry-with-an-esp8266/ #Microcontrollers #floodingmonitor #humiditymonitor #ArduinoIDE #homehacks #hardware #ESP8266 #BMP280 #AHT20

Smart Terrarium Run By ESP32 https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/smart-terrarium-run-by-esp32/ #Microcontrollers #homehacks #plantlife #terrarium #plants #ESP32

Smart Terrarium Run By ESP32 - A terrarium is a little piece of the living world captured in a small enclosure yo... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/smart-terrarium-run-by-esp32/ #microcontrollers #homehacks #plantlife #terrarium #plants #esp32

LED Layer Makes Plywood Glow https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/led-layer-makes-plywood-glow/ #Microcontrollers #bendingacrylic #bendingplywood #CO2lasercutter #customplywood #RGBLED #epoxy #PY32 #Art

LED Layer Makes Plywood Glow - Plywood is an interesting material: made up of many layers of thin wood plys, it c... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/led-layer-makes-plywood-glow/ #microcontrollers #bendingacrylic #bendingplywood #co2lasercutter #customplywood #rgbled #epoxy #py32 #art

We had a very nice talk on Ariel #OS at #RustWeek - and this slide made me realize I could use another approach to explain this one thing I always try to explain:

Right between constrained #microcontrollers and application processors that offer gigabytes of memory and an MMU, platform initialization #firmware such as @oreboot is #software that transitions from what feels like an MCU over into the full system by bringing up DRAM.

In that sense, it is #embedded software programming.

A Brain Transplant for a Philips Smart Lamp https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/a-brain-transplant-for-a-philips-smart-lamp/ #Microcontrollers #smartlight #homehacks #ESP32-C6 #zigbee

A Brain Transplant for a Philips Smart Lamp - As the saying goes, modern problems require modern solutions. When the modern prob... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/a-brain-transplant-for-a-philips-smart-lamp/ #microcontrollers #smartlight #homehacks #esp32-c6 #zigbee

Exploring the RP2350’s UART-Bootloader https://hackaday.com/2025/05/11/exploring-the-rp2350s-uart-bootloader/ #Microcontrollers #microcontroller #UARTbootloader #rp2350 #uart

Exploring the RP2350’s UART-Bootloader - The RP2350 has a few advantages over its predecessor, one of which is the ability ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/11/exploring-the-rp2350s-uart-bootloader/ #microcontrollers #microcontroller #uartbootloader #rp2350 #uart

Web Dashboard and OTA Updates for the ESP32 https://hackaday.com/2025/05/10/web-dashboard-and-ota-updates-for-the-esp32/ #SoftwareDevelopment #over-the-airupdate #web-basedinterface #embeddedwebserver #Microcontrollers #admindashboard #RESTinterface #mongoose #ESP32 #gui #OTA