Smart lights are a great way to enhance home security. Being able to flip on the lights remotely or automatically, you can give the impression that someone is home and expose potential intruders. It’s ...

The Etch a Sketch toy has gone more or less unchanged for over 60 years, but if you’re handy with a soldering iron you can build an upgraded version that swaps aluminum powder for glowing LEDs. You’re ...

I've been playing around with a couple of ESP32 microcontrollers, and that experimentation has taught me a lot about sensors and what you can build for really, really cheap. For as little as $4, you ...

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Sensor fusion sounds great, but how does it work? We show how you can apply sensor fusion in your product for indoor mobile navigation, combining visual and movement data. How to build an indoor ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Setting up your smart home can mean a lot of different things. You could be choosing different devices, or you could be deciding how to use the smart home devices you just got. Just purchasing one ...