For smart home deployments, there are a lot of ways to track the presence of individuals in a room. There are motion detection sensors that use mmWave and PIR, and you can also use simple detection ...
The ESP32 is a beloved microcontroller from Espressif, offering quite a lot in a small, very cheap package. Yet as you may already know, there are lots of different kinds of ESP32, and it can be hard ...
Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of a Hall Effect sensor — in this case, one salvaged from an old CPU fan. Two LEDs, a 100 ohm resistor, and a 3.7 volt ...