If you love tinkering, ESPHome is a fantastic way to build custom smart home devices. This open-source firmware framework gives you local control over smart home devices that support open standards.

We don’t know if this will come as a surprise to the regular Hackaday reader, but a whole bunch of Atmel microcontrollers have a very cool feature hidden away in their datasheets. Most of them – ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to MarketsandMarkets™, the Resistive Temperature Detector (RTD) Temperature Sensor Market is projected to grow from USD 1.64 billion in 2025 ...

The BME280 sensor was easier to set up, as it communicates over the I2C serial protocol. This means that we only needed to ...

Thermopile sensors offer a reliable way to measure temperature without physical contact, making them ideal for real-world applications where speed, safety, and precision matter. Whether you are ...

This project is to prototype a set of self-powered (such as piezoelectric, thermostat, solar, etc) embedded sensor systems for pervasive computing. A tangible exam is a body-temperature powered motion ...