Writing out a few thousand words is easy. Getting them in the proper order, now that’s another story entirely. Sometimes you’ll find yourself staring at a blank page, struggling to sieve coherent ...

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 ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

I'm a big fan of the ESP32, and I have a few different boards that I play around with. I have two of the "classic" ESP32 microcontrollers, an ESP32-C6 with Zigbee and Thread support, and an ESP32-S3.

In a recent article in Elektor magazine, [Clemens Valens] describes the construction and software for an ESP32 walkie-talkie system that uses ESP-NOW for the wireless connection between units, along ...