Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs. Specifically a backdoor on the Bluetooth side that would give a ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

The Cardputer-Adv is an update to the M5Stack Cardputer ESP32-S3 computer with an improved antenna, enhanced audio, a larger ...

Building your own smart devices can be a lot of fun, but as your projects scale in complexity, so can the parts required. I've wanted to build my own voice assistant for quite a long time now, after ...

Commercial Bluetooth pedals, designed to allow musicians to flip pages of sheet music on a tablet, have the sort of inflated price tag you’d expect for a niche electronic device. Rather than forking ...