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. …
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. …