A Raspberry Pi makes an excellent entry point into home server projects. While it won’t replace a full-blown server or NAS in raw power, it’s versatile enough to handle a surprising range of services.

Thanks to their low power consumption, inexpensive price tags, and multiple I/O options, ESP32, Arduino, and other microcontroller families are perfect for automation and circuitry projects. Then ...

Previously, I used a spare Raspberry Pi and an HDD to create a family photo cloud and a photo frame. The setup allows photos on my home HDD to be viewed via Nextcloud, syncs photos placed in a photo ...

This set of scripts allows users the ability to read a directory full of images (i.e. images FTP'ed by your camera), send a notification to your mobile device (via ...

At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun ...

Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a ...

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The endless, drawn-out pandemic years are definitely over for the PC. Just a couple of years back, lockdowns and chip shortages caused PC components (even webcams!) to plunge out of stock and products ...