The ESP32 Flash Bee is a palm-sized lightning radar you can build yourself
… Related I built my own local-first Ring Doorbell alternative with an ESP32 It works the same way, except without any subscription fees. …
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Local LLMs are actually good now, and I wasted months not realizing it
… I definitely didn't get it with local AI in mind because that wasn't even on my radar. It runs local LLMs fine. …
ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
… Not only is 2026 the year of the smart home, but it's also time to make the swap to local-only devices too. …
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
… What sold me was that every ESP32 device I built worked locally, without a cloud dependency. …
Your last backup completing successfully doesn't mean your data is actually recoverable
… I’d repeat this process for both local and remote nodes . …
Google turned the Pixel’s best feature into an app, and I use it constantly
… A Under-display fingerprint scanning B 3D face unlock using a radar sensor C Iris scanning D Vein pattern recognition Correct! The Pixel 4 used Soli, a miniature radar chip developed by Google's ATAP team, to power its face unlock system. …
HexOS can finally manage your NAS locally instead of through the cloud, and it fixes its biggest flaw
… HexOS Local arrived right as that conversation was happening. When you first open HexOS Local from your local network, your browser asks permission to access local network resources. This only happens once. After that, it defaults to local every time you open it. …
I never use my Pixel phone without these powerful open-source apps
… It offers automated local backups. I have it set up to export an encrypted backup file to my local device storage every time I scan a new QR code. …