Why Windows IPCs Fail in Harsh Telemetry Stations & How RTOS Embedded Dataloggers Solve It
TL;DR for IIoT Architects & System Integrators: Deploying consumer Mini PCs or fanless Windows Industrial PCs (IPCs) in unmanned environmental t…
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The Internet of Things is Held Together With Duct Tape and Default Passwords[Badly]
My smart light bulb tried to mine crypto last Tuesday. Not a joke. Not a metaphor. I have a cheap Tuya bulb I bought from for $12.99 in 2023. "Smart…
Can We Build Smart Mines That Predict Danger Before It Happens?
Can We Build Smart Mines That Predict Danger Before It Happens? ⛏️🤖 Imagine a mining environment where dangerous gases, structural vibrations, and w…
How Window Cleaning Robots Actually Work: Sensors, Navigation, and Safety Systems Explained
Smart home robotics usually begins with floor vacuums, but vertical glass traversal introduces an entirely distinct set of physical constraints. Whe…
JalRakshak Garden AI: Bringing Open-Source AI Into the Garden 🌱
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass . What I Built 🌱 JalRakshak Garden AI is a local-first, AI-p…
What a 905 nm rangefinder datasheet does not tell you
What a 905 nm rangefinder datasheet does not tell you Four gaps I found while verifying the UART protocol of an LR1000E2-class 905 nm laser rangefin…
Top IoT Development Tools & Platforms for 2026
Developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications requires a balanced combination of hardware controls, low-latency protocols, real-time data ingesti…
How to Automate Fleet Emissions with J1939 Telematics and Continuous Diagnostics
How to Automate Fleet Emissions with J1939 Telematics and Continuous Diagnostics If you engineer products around the logistics or transit industry,…
AI-Powered Fleet Management: Using Predictive Maintenance to Reduce E-Scooter Downtime
In the micromobility sector, hardware is only as profitable as its uptime. For e-scooter operators in fast-paced markets like Dubai, keeping a fleet…
Talking to a PLC from C#, Part 3: Safe Writes and a Clean Abstraction Layer
We've come a long way. In Part 1 we connected a C# app to a Beckhoff PLC and did our first read and write. In Part 2 we stopped polling, subscribed…
"How I Integrated HardwareMind: Connecting Hindsight, AI, and Hardware Failure Investigation"
When we started working on HardwareMind, I initially thought the main challenge would be building the AI part. But as the project came together, I r…
Time-Series Storage: How to Evaluate Encoding and Compression for IoT Data
A developer-oriented guide to testing storage efficiency without losing the query and ingestion behavior that makes telemetry useful. When an IoT de…
The physical ring
I bought a ring with physical buttons. It is not smart. It is the smartest ring I bought. The ring that cost me the most has no health monitoring. N…
Finding the Exposed Controllers: Using ZoomEye to Locate Internet-Reachable EtherNet/IP Assets
Finding the Exposed Controllers: Using ZoomEye to Locate Internet-Reachable EtherNet/IP Assets On 30 July 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastru…
Exposed PLCs in the Water Sector: What CISA's Alert Reveals About Internet-Facing OT
Exposed PLCs in the Water Sector: What CISA's Alert Reveals About Internet-Facing OT On 30 July 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu…
A sensor can generate data. But how do we turn that data into something useful?
Your IoT Project Works. Now What? You connect a sensor to an ESP8266. You write a few lines of Arduino code. You upload it. And finally, you see som…
Node.js Realtime Event Discovery: Token Trust for Healthtech IoT Control Panels
Use realtime event discovery as an observability and trust exercise: classify what the panel can learn, bind each event to a narrow token scope, and…
Designing Low-Power IoT Devices with Integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE SoCs
Modern IoT devices are expected to do more while using less power and occupying less physical space. A single connected device may need to communica…
At the edge, the number that matters is memory - not throughput (specially in Ramageddon)
We rebuilt LF Edge eKuiper in Rust and ran it against eKuiper, Telegraf and Redpanda Connect on five real MQTT workloads — one core, 1 GB of memory,…
Why My IoT Data Quality Misses the Mark Before ML Processing
When I first started working with IoT data feeds from over 2,500 devices, I thought we were about to significantly improve our predictive models. Bu…
Web Developer = Embedded Developer: Real PHP Now Runs on the ESP32 (v1.0.0)
If you can write index.php , you can already program a microcontroller. That's not a metaphor. PHP on ESP32 just hit 1.0.0 — the first official rele…
Architecting Low-Latency RFID Telemetry & Real-Time Event Dashboards
Building systems that manage 30,000+ attendees at modern mega-conferences involves edge synchronization challenges standard web stacks rarely encoun…
Networking Foundations for Modern Edge & IoT Systems
Even though networking fundamentals are often taught at the early stages of a tech career, their relevance becomes far more important when you begin…
3 Common STM32 Timer Mistakes That Give You the Wrong PWM Frequency
The symptom: PSC and ARR look right, but the frequency is wrong STM32 timer math is compact enough to fit in one line, yet small assumptions can mov…
smart agriculture system
This is documentation of my latest and most exciting project so far a smart agriculture system on raspberry pi running a linux image that was custom…
Основы Product Security для автомобилей и зарядных станций: термины, архитектура, фреймворки
Preview Современный автомобиль и зарядная станция — это уже не просто «железо», а сложные программно-аппаратные продукты, кратко можно сказать как "…
Building a Local Energy Monitoring Pipeline Without Locking Yourself Into One Vendor
Energy monitoring projects often start with one simple request: show the current power reading in a dashboard. The first version is usually straight…
Building an Industrial HMI and Edge Controller on STM32 with FreeRTOS and Modbus TCP
Building an Industrial HMI and Edge Controller on STM32 with FreeRTOS and Modbus TCP Industrial control demos are often judged by the screen. The mo…
Four reviewers told me the one thing I couldn't fix by myself
What happens when you submit a solo open-source project to academic peer review: the reviews were good, the paper was rejected, and the gap they fou…
Reachy PizzAIolo: When a Restaurant Sign Starts a Conversation
Reachy PizzAIolo: When a Restaurant Sign Starts a Conversation Building an AI-powered conversational restaurant ordering experience with Reachy Mini…