One of the best and most simplest use cases for an ESP32-based display is a smart home dashboard. Touch or non-touch, it doesn't matter, as a basic display can be used to show information from ...

What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts: an ESP32 MCU, an inertial ...

A compact secondary display called WebScreen is being promoted as a hacker-friendly add-on for gaming and creator setups, with crowdfunding underway. It is designed to perch atop a primary monitor and ...

Of course, that's usually followed by someone creating a fantastic handheld NES emulator as their first embedded project, and suddenly my untidy heap of wires and buttons doesn't feel so inspiring ...

We’ve seen tons of projects lately using the ESP32-C3, and for good reason. The microcontroller has a lot to offer, and the current crop of tiny dev boards sporting it make adding a lot of compute ...

Two 4-inch square HDMI touchscreen displays from VIEWE and Waveshare for Raspberry Pi SBCs, Jetson Nano SBC, and computers.

I wanted to build a high-quality internet radio that could connect to both my local Ethernet network and a WiFi access point. This setup allows me to record radio broadcasts—especially France ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...