Build Your Own Smart Home Sensor for $6 in 10 Minutes

Build a DIY ESP32C6 temperature and humidity sensor in 10 minutes with ESPHome, then add it to Home Assistant for low-cost, ...

Meross’ radar presence sensor ditches the cord and adds Matter-over-Thread support

A single battery can power the MS605 mmWave radar presence sensor for up to three years. Meross has announced a new version of its MS600 presence sensor that’s now battery-powered, so installation ...

Switchbot’s $30 presence sensor runs for two years on a pair of AAAs.

Following Aqara and Meross, SwitchBot has announced a new presence sensor with light, PIR, and 60 GHz mmWave radar sensors to ...
CNX Software

Arduino-programmable environmental and air quality sensor kit features ENS160 and BME280 sensors

Designed by Nova Radio Labs in the US, the Novaduino Environmental Sensor Kit is an Arduino-programmable air quality and ...
Hackaday

Congratulations To The 2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners

For the Component Abuse Challenge, we asked you to do the wrong thing with electrical parts, but nonetheless come out with the right result. It’s probably the most Hackaday challenge we have run ...
Hackaday

DIY GameTank Game Console Gets Upgraded Cartridge

Over the summer, you might recall seeing a homebrew 6502 game console called the GameTank grace these pages. The product of [Clyde Shaffer], the system was impressively complete, very well documented, ...