…On your smart home layer, it can show you the current brightness of your office lights. The perks of DIY are that you get full customization, which isn't available on the…
…In the end, troubleshooting the code and hardware problems tested my patience several times. Yet, every hour I spent on that helped me learn how my smart home works. Besides building my…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 12, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…the DIY route gives you a result that is better than any smart photo frame you can buy at a big-box store. By pairing this so-called obsolete hardware with a…
…75 Hall Effect DIY Keyboard is a surprisingly decent all-rounder for productivity. Unless you absolutely need a NumPad, pretty much everything is here, paired with premium hardware and switches you can…
…isn’t ideal for a DIY Home Assistant setup If anything, it’s way too overpriced and lacks sheer performance As someone who began his smart home journey on a Raspberry Pi…
…Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally By Hassam Nasir Published 14 December 25 Microcontroller Projects Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart…
…Getting all the hardware mounted on the cardboard required some smart drilling and screws, and they even spent some time creating a secret turn-on sequence that requires pressing nine mechanical switches…
…I love projects that combine e-ink displays with DIY chips. You usually find them cropping up in the smart home and productivity niches, as the low refresh rate of e-ink…
…for DIY projects involving sensor modules and automation chains. But considering the insane price hikes affecting the mainline Raspberry Pi SBCs, grabbing a new RPi board just to build smart gadgets is…
