The ESP32, while first thought to be little more than a way of adding wireless capabilities to other microcontrollers, has quickly replaced many of them with its ability to be programmed as its own ...

There’s just some joy in an instant camera. They were never quality cameras, even in the glory days of Polaroid, but somehow the format has survived while the likes of Kodachrome have faded away.

The cam here uses Node.js to set everything up, then snaps a picture every few seconds and saves it online by using your smartphone’s hot spot. This way, the stream is available online at any time. To ...