Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since ...

What just happened? A compact quadcopter built around an ESP32 microcontroller has reached a measured top speed of about 67 miles per hour, demonstrating how far a low-cost, small-format platform can ...

Have you ever imagined building a drone so small it could rest comfortably in the palm of your hand, yet powerful enough to soar through the air with precision, all controlled from your smartphone?

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

You can use the provided systemd service to run the Flask app using gunicorn. You will need gnuplot in order to generate the graphs. All the temperature measurements are stored in .tlog files, which ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

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 ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...

An illegally-owned 13-foot Burmese python was seized from a home in central New York state last week, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

When Espressif Systems released Arduino ESP32 Core 3.0.0 we noted that PlatformIO support was in doubt due to business issues between Espressif and Platform IO developers. There has been no progress ...

The CL-32 is a work-in-progress pocket-sized PC that combines modern hardware with classic design inspired by systems from the 1980s like the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. While some details haven’t been ...