# Beyond Chatbots: Why Developers Should Start Building AI + IoT Applications
Artificial Intelligence has become the go-to technology for developers. Every week there's a new LLM, framework, or AI tool making headlines. But whil…
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# What I Learned from Building with GIS Data and the Copernicus API at the KijaniSpace Hackathon
As software developers, we often spend most of our time building APIs, databases, authentication systems, and web applications. That's certainly been …
Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Batteryless IoT Sensors
Industrial motors continuously reject energy as heat. Under the right conditions, a small part of that heat can power the sensor used to monitor the m…
The reconnect storm that never touched the broker
There's a particular kind of 2 a.m. that only happens in fleet IoT. A slice of your devices — a few thousand of them — drop off the network at once. B…
How to Build Rock-Solid Real-Time Data Pipelines from the Factory Floor IoT
Lessons from hooking up stamping presses, welding cells, and MES without dropping a single byte of data. If you’ve ever been tasked with trying to fee…
7 Tuya Matter Pitfalls That Will Kill Your Certification (And How We Avoided Them)
# 7 Tuya Matter Pitfalls That Will Kill Your Certification (And How We Avoided Them) We have shipped several Tuya Matter products over the past eighte…
Building a Custom Modbus TCP Client in .NET: What a Production-Grade Poller Actually Needs
Most Modbus tutorials in .NET end at the same place: install a library, call ReadHoldingRegisters , print a number. That is enough to prove a device i…
Tesla Built the First Wireless Remote Control
In 1898, years before radio broadcasting existed and decades before anyone used the word "electronics," Nikola Tesla stood in front of a crowd at Madi…
A firmware fix instead of a recall: root-cause engineering for a deployed wearable
The wearable was already in the market, on athletes, when the reports started. Units power-cycling at random. Unreliable charging while docked. Data g…
H5 or Native App for QR-Based Device Rentals? A Decision Framework
A QR code makes a device rental look simple: scan, pay, unlock, return. The client experience behind that QR code is not simple. A product team still …
Secure BLE OTA Firmware Updates on nRF5340: Architecture Notes
Firmware updates are one of the places where an embedded prototype either becomes maintainable or becomes expensive to support. The hard part is not m…
4 Cool Open-Source Hardware Projects to Spark Your Next Build
tags: hardware, iot, opensource, electronics As software developers, many of us reach a point where writing code inside a virtual environment isn't qu…
🔥 I Built an ESP32 Smart Bike Control System with an Android App (Open Source)
🚀 I Built an ESP32 Smart Bike Control System with an Android App (Open Source) What if your motorcycle could become a smart vehicle without replacing …
Firmware Black Box: diagnosing embedded resets in the field
A device that resets in the field is not always the hardest problem. The harder problem is a device that resets, comes back online, and leaves no evid…
Современный MQTT-сервис на Python
В Python при выборе библиотеки для работы с MQTT почти всегда приходишь к paho-mqtt . Это зрелый и самый популярный клиент, но его API построен на кол…
Don't Buy It, Build It: Crafting an Open-Source, Edge-Computing AI Dashcam
Preface Every day, thousands of creative ideas sit completely dormant on workshop shelves around the world. A high-performance microprocessor sits in …
MAX20151R: The 40V, 500mA Ultra-Low-Noise LDO That Silences Power Rails
Why 40V Input and 500mA Output Matter in Noise-Sensitive Designs You’ve probably fought a power rail that looked clean on a multimeter but still trash…
MQTT to ThingsBoard Setting Up Device Telemetry from Scratch
ThingsBoard is one of the most capable open-source IoT platforms out there. But the first time you try to get a device publishing telemetry over MQTT,…
My Journey from Electronics Student to Embedded Hardware Engineer
Hello everyone! 👋 My name is Vishal Kumar Sahni, and I currently work as an Embedded Hardware Engineer at Teravolt. I am passionate about embedded sys…
Network Transformer Selection for IoT Ethernet: PHY Compatibility, EEE, and Low-Power Design
IoT Ethernet designs have different transformer requirements than standard networking equipment. Here's the complete technical reference for IoT- spec…
MAVLink: the protocol behind millions of drones (and why it isn't secure by default)
Quick disclaimer: I'm still learning this stuff. This comes out of a small personal project where I'm trying to secure the link between a hobby drone …
Fitness Tracker Accuracy Testing Methodology: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Fitness trackers have become ubiquitous in our daily lives, promising to monitor everything from heart rate to sleep quality. But how acc…
The First Computer Bug Was a Real Moth
Every developer who has ever muttered "there is a bug in this" is repeating a word with a surprisingly literal origin. On September 9, 1947, the opera…
IRUTESAM V1.0 – A Cost-Effective IoT-Based Multi-Testing Device Using ESP32
Introduction Modern embedded development and wireless testing often require multiple specialized tools for analyzing Wi-Fi networks, testing NFC cards…
Matter Zigbee Thread Device Migration
Matter, Zigbee & Thread Device Migration – What Your Smart Home Needs Right Now Hey folks, Nick Creighton here – the voice you just heard on the l…
Voice Assistant Smart Home Routines 2025
Voice Assistant Smart Home Routines 2025 Hey there, it’s Nick Creighton from SmartHome Wizardry . If you’ve ever rolled out of bed, squinted at a blin…
How Hedy Lamarr Invented Wireless Frequency Hopping
Ask most engineers who laid the groundwork for modern wireless and you will hear names like Marconi, Shannon, or the committees behind the IEEE 802.11…
Magnificent Humanity, Building Cities, and a Special Announcement!
I'm back from a great vacation and side-quest experience in Asia, where one can always find brilliant human interactions even with imperfect linguisti…
Zigbee Smart Lights Keep Disconnecting? Here's Your Complete Troubleshooting Guide
Zigbee Smart Lights Keep Disconnecting? Here's Your Complete Troubleshooting Guide After three years manufacturing Zigbee lighting products, I've seen…
Build a 32x32 AI Pixel Display with 1024 RGB LEDs Using TuyaOpen
- What if your desk display could respond to voice commands, show AI-generated pixel art, visualize music, display weather, and connect to your smart …