A common sight in ‘smart homes’, door sensors allow you to detect whether a door is closed or open, enabling the triggering ...

Colder weather is fast approaching, which means keeping a careful eye on your body temperature if you spend a lot of time outdoors. Winter’s risks toward your body include frostbite and even ...

Home automation with high usefulness and low annoyance tends to rely on reliable person sensing, and [francescopace]’s ESPectre shows one way to do that cheaply and easily by leveraging ...

Intelligent MEMS sensors on breakout boards jumpstart many maker projects. Off-the-shelf drivers can get an analog sensor reading from a prototype in minutes. If sample rates are in seconds instead of ...

It’s no exaggeration to say the ’00s have been the decade when the electronic sensor left the factory floor and went, well, everywhere. Manufacturers and retailers use RFID tags to track inventory.