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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas? Welcome to the family!
If you’re still reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve just unwrapped a shiny new Raspberry Pi. First of all: welcome! (And yes, welcome to those of you who bought one for yourselves; you are also most welcome). You’re about to enter a world full of tinkering, learning, and creativity.
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Hackaday ☛ MQTT Pager Build Is Bringing Beepers Back
Pagers were once a great way to get a message to someone out in public; they just had to be cool enough to have one. These days, they’re mostly the preserve of doctors and a few other niche operators. [Kyle Tryon] is bringing the beeper back, though, with a custom ESP32-based build.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ The Christmas Present Peeker Trap uses an ESP32 Cam board, photoresistor, buzzer, and connected app to catch even the sneakiest of gift glimpsers
Are you a maker and suspect that you have a festive sneak‑a‑looker in your home? Well, the Makerinator has returned with the perfect project for you, dubbed the (Christmas) Present Peeker Trap. In brief, it’s a couple of microcontrollers, connected to a camera, photoresistor, buzzer, and software stack to send SMS, save video to the cloud, and serve a video of the dastardly peeker, wrapped nicely in a dedicated app.
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Uğur Erdem Seyfi ☛ Using The Corne Keyboard For Half A Year
I will first talk about my overall reasons for choosing such a niche keyboard, then why and how I built it. Finally, I will share some very cool tips and tricks about how I played with the layout to make my Corne fit my specific needs better.