Smart Devices

 

ESP32 Bluetooth Hacked

A new Bluetooth vulnerability known as BrakTooth has been publicized, impacting the popular Espressif ESP32 IoT chip. The details of ...

MagicMirror

Back in 2014, a Raspberry Pi enthusiast by the name of Michael Teeuw shared his build of a "magic mirror" ...

FreeCAD

Our look at running a CNC milling machine using open-source software led me to another tool worth looking at: FreeCAD ...

WiFi security vulnerability found in Espressif SDKs

Software developer Lukas Bachschwell recently found a serious security issue (CVE-2020-12638) in the SDKs for a microprocessor we have covered ...

Open Source CNCing

Last year Sienci Labs finished its Kickstarter campaign for the open-source LongMill Benchtop CNC Router -- its second successful open-source ...

Arduino IoT Security

Arduino devices are a favorite among do-it-yourself (DIY) enthusiasts to create, among other things, Internet of Things (IoT) devices. We ...

Home Assistant 0.112 Released

The Home Assistant project has released version 0.112 of the open-source home automation hub we have previously covered, which is ...

ESP8266: Closed source SDK with a wide open community

The Internet of Things (IoT) world is filled with countless microprocessors. Many readers may already be familiar with the Arduino ...

Your own smart hub: Meet Home Assistant

The Internet of Things (IoT) push continues to expand as tens of thousands of different internet-enabled devices from light bulbs ...