Battery endurance is a big issue with modern mobile devices. Who wants a phone that goes down in the middle of the day? But with ….
Category: hardware
As a late-term “Baby Boomer” – I grew up with black-and-white TV and an assortment of shows that didn’t need a lot of blood or ….
A bit chunk of breached confidential data, containing millions of e-mail addresses and passwords, were -again- made public a few days ago. How can we ….
There are a few ways to measure power consumption, voltage or current with an Arduino. Unfortunately, the ESP8266 has a few limitations that make it ….
Home automation is cool. It really is. Switch power and or off, lights come on with a touch or voice command, everything can be controlled ….
After having been working with voice controlled or .. voice activated “smart” environments for a while, here’s my take: This could get really great if ….
So – you got this Amazon Alexa device at Cyber-Monday? And maybe a connected “smart” plug or light bulb? Before you start adding more “smart” ….
Yep – those little ESP chips are cute. And powerful. And easy to program. And much more. But if you are going to control more ….
Cheap IoT devices like power plugs are mostly manufactured in China. They connect to “bridging” servers we don’t really have control over, they are usually ….