You no longer need to spend money on expensive smart devices. If you take your data’s privacy seriously and want your smart ...

[Stefan]’s Mini WiFi/BLE 4WD robot platform (seen next to a matchbox above) packs an impressive capability into a tiny rover. It’s based on a SparkFun ESP32 Thing, a very compact way to add wireless ...

Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs. Specifically a backdoor on the Bluetooth side that would give a ...

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 ...

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 ...