Some ESP32 boards become community favourites because they're small, cheap, or easy to flash. The ESP32-A1S (known also as the "AI Thinker") became popular for a different reason: it promised an audio ...
A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they’re intended for remaking car ECUs. For a while ...
What if the future of IoT didn’t depend on Wi-Fi? Imagine deploying a fleet of sensors in the remotest corners of the world, tracking wildlife, monitoring environmental changes, or managing logistics, ...
RAKwireless RAK11160 is a new low-cost, low-power LoRaWAN, WiFi 4, and Bluetooth LE module based on ESP32-C2 (ESP8684) wireless microcontroller and STM32WLE5 LoRa SoC for LPWAN IoT applications. The ...
Partial shading on rooftop PV systems is not uncommon. However, it poses particular challenges for modules as even 5% shading on the panel's surface can lead to a total loss of performance, according ...
Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs. Specifically a backdoor on the Bluetooth side that would give a ...
Espressif’s popular ESP32 microchip, found in over a billion devices, has been caught with its digital trousers down, thanks to an undocumented "backdoor" lurking in its Bluetooth firmware. For those ...
Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...
In a world where Samsung and Apple continue to hit “CTRL-V” each year for their phone designs, thank goodness we have companies like Nothing. Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t deny that Nothing is ...