Tutorials

In this tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how I send sensor data from an ESP32 to Google Sheets every hour.

If you’re looking for a simple but powerful way to control AC or DC devices over Wi‑Fi, the ESP8266 relay board is one of the best places to start. I’ve used ESP8266‑based boards in many hobby and semi‑professional projects, and relay boards are usually the first real‑world application people build.

In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through how I built my own voice assistant—similar to Alexa or Google Home—using only a Raspberry Pi 5, a USB microphone, a speaker, and an LLM with text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) support. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a …

This guide shows how to interface the MH-ET LIVE Scanner V3.0 with Arduino using the UART serial interface. This scanner can read 1D barcodes and 2D codes including QR, and outputs the decoded text through UART or USB.

Ever wanted to make your ESP32 respond to voice commands like “ON”, “OFF”, or “LIGHT”? Thanks to TinyML, we can now run machine-learning models directly on microcontrollers — no cloud needed. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through building a voice command recognition project using an ESP32, Edge Impulse, and …

Introduction Whenever I peel back the layers of how my Arduino boards actually work, I always end up revisiting one classic topic: CISC vs RISC. When I first heard those terms, I honestly thought they were meant for chip architects wearing lab coats inside semiconductor fabs. But the more I …

The WeMos D1 R32 is an ESP32-based development board that takes the familiar Arduino Uno form factor. It promises to give makers the power of the ESP32—Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, dual-core processing—while keeping the physical compatibility of an Arduino board. But as many users have discovered, the D1 R32 isn’t a drop-in …

Introduction: What Is the ESP32 Keyboard Project? The ESP32 Keyboard project allows your ESP32 board to act as a Bluetooth keyboard that can wirelessly send keystrokes to computers, tablets, and smartphones. Using the open-source ESP32 BLE Keyboard library by T-vK, you can emulate a full HID (Human Interface Device) keyboard …

Programming PIC microcontrollers usually requires specialized hardware programmers like the PICkit series. But what if you don’t have one? Thanks to open-source projects like a-p-prog, you can turn an Arduino Uno or Nano into a PIC programmer that works over the In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP) interface. In this tutorial, we’ll …

If you’ve just started tinkering with ESP32 microcontrollers, you’ve probably noticed there isn’t just one “ESP32 board” — there are many, each with its own quirks and strengths. Some are built for general prototyping, others come with cameras or extra memory, while newer ones focus on AI, USB gadgets, or …