If you love tinkering, ESPHome is a fantastic way to build custom smart home devices. This open-source firmware framework ...

The plug-and-play style of smart home devices is convenient but expensive. ESPHome is monumental in helping you save costs and build your own smart devices to pair with Home Assistant. All you need is ...

Sensor plays very important role in robotics and plant automation. One of the important areas in Industrial applications is Interfacing their output to the firmware. It is very important to understand ...

Over the past three years, the Raspberry Pi has proved that a credit card-sized microcomputer can routinely surprise users with its sneaky power and capabilities. Of course, the only problem is that a ...

Students built an Interactive Sensor Box to teach ENGR1 students about different sensors that they do not learn about in ENGR1L. This Sensor Box was build using a ping sensor with LEDs, solenoids with ...

In Montreal, bus and subway riders who use the transit system’s OPUS smart fare card and have a smartphone, can receive personalized coupons from stores and entertainment venues that are located along ...

ARPA-E’s SENSOR program seeks user-transparent sensor systems that accurately quantify human presence to dramatically reduce energy use in commercial and residential buildings. About 13% of all energy ...

In this installment of the Innovation of the Month series (read last month’s story here), we explore how Portland, Ore., is testing sensor pilots to help improve air quality monitoring, and then look ...

You can’t have a touch sensitive switch without a way to detect the presence of a finger! A touch sensor, especially a capacitive touch sensor, has some surprisingly sophisticated electronics to ...