We’re big fans of pushing hardware into situations it wasn’t designed for here at Hackaday, but sometimes you’ve got to ...

Create a DIY ESP32 music player featuring Bluetooth and a brass rotary encoder. This guide covers soldering, custom code, and ...

Following our coverage of a 4.3-inch ESP32-S31 display development board, a Facebook reader pointed out the GUITION JC3636F118C-I-YR1 rotary encoder with ...

This is a design and code to power a Walthers 90 foot HO model railroad turntable. See photos and video below and in the code file above. This is an update to a project I completed over 20 years ago ...

A unique combination of astronomy, embedded programming and ambient lighting that transforms an ESP32-powered display into a realistic real-time Moon simulator. Recently on the Hackaday portal I came ...

A browser-based simulator lets users design electronic circuits, write microcontroller code, test firmware, and debug projects online without installing software. EWskills Launches EWsim.io EWskills ...

Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. Whether it's ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

The Waveshare ESP32-S3-Knob-Touch-LCD-1.8 is a batterry-powered knob display board designed for HMI applications that combines ESP32-S3 and ESP32 SoCs in a dual MCU architecture. The design differs ...

The monitoring of slopes’ dynamics is essential to ensure the safety of infrastructures exposed to landslide risk and to develop mitigation strategies. However, it is not always possible to perform ...

This is a very original, effective, and interesting example of a safe lock, which is almost identical to the large factory safes. Rotary dial safes typically use a mechanical combination lock. They ...