The Petoi family of programmable robot dogs has a new member: an ESP32 board powered "Bittle X", which has the new feature of also being voice controlled. We're talking a palm-sized, open-source ...

Take the ESP32-CAM, a board that started appearing on the market in early 2019. On paper, the thing is amazing: an ESP32 with support for a camera and an SD card, all for less than $10.

This ESP32-CAM surveillance bot is a great example of what was once hard becoming trivially easy. It’s a case of standing on the shoulders of giants.