I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have ...

Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all ...

Have you ever wanted to build your own IoT-based Weather Monitoring Station? Imagine monitoring real-time temperature, humidity levels, atmospheric pressure, rainfall detection, air quality index (AQI ...

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install multiple versions of the ESP32 board package in the Arduino IDE. Once set up, you’ll have the option to choose a specific version of the ESP32 package ...

The fully qualified board name to use when compiling. YAML-format list of platform dependencies to install. Default: The board's dependency will be automatically determined from the fqbn input and the ...

A robust natural language processing (NLP) tool, ChatGPT can produce thoughtful, contextually-aware answers to a variety of queries and prompts. OpenAI's GPT-3.5 architecture, a sizable language model ...

Discover the updated Arduino IoT water leak detector: smarter, more efficient, with advanced monitoring and alert systems for the modern smart home. Following the Elektor article presenting the water ...

There are a number of good Arduino libraries out there for OTA ("Over The Air") firmware updates. Example: ArduinoOTA and AsyncElegantOTA. These libraries use a "push" technology, wherein you identify ...

Update, 1/2/21: It's New Year's weekend, and Ars staff is still enjoying some necessary downtime to prepare for a new year (and a slew of CES emails, we're sure). While that happens, we're resurfacing ...