Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

If you want Home Assistant to feel “alive,” sensors are where it starts. Temperature, humidity, motion, air quality, door state, water leaks, all of it turns a dashboard into something that reacts ...

Online weather services are great for providing generic area forecasts, but they don’t provide hyperlocal data specific to your location. [Harald Kreuzer] needed both and built a Raspberry Pi Weather ...

More often than not, an IoT master device uses the SPI (serial peripheral interface) and I2C (inter-integrated circuit) protocols to exchange data with EEPROMs or sensors that are operating in slave ...

Raspberry Pi Pico is a handy piece of hardware. It’s small, cheap, and equipped with a powerful dual-core RP2040 microcontroller that offers 2M (up to 16M) Flash and 264K SRAM memories. Such ...