CYD Weather Dashboard

Weather station on the yellow display: five-day forecast, hourly timeline, graphs and the current conditions.No solderingCheap Yellow DisplayCan be built in an evening

SecureGen

Pocket TOTP authenticator and password manager that types your passwords as a Bluetooth keyboard.No solderingLilyGO T-Display and 1 more boardCan be built in an evening

ESP32 MFA Authenticator

Offline two-factor code generator on the yellow display: your TOTP secrets stay on a board you own, behind a PIN.No solderingCheap Yellow DisplayCan be built in an evening

ESP32 CYD PDA

Palm OS style pocket organizer on the yellow display: notes, calendar, calculator, files and small apps.No solderingCheap Yellow DisplayCan be built in an evening

Smart Remote+ for CYD

Touch screen Wi-Fi remote for LG webOS TVs: power, volume, inputs and app tiles, with your own layouts.No solderingCheap Yellow DisplayCan be built in an evening

SensorStation3

Indoor climate station on the yellow display: temperature, humidity, pressure and CO2 with 24-hour graphs.SolderingCheap Yellow DisplayCan be built in an evening

XiaoZhi AI

Voice assistant you build on a breadboard: talk to a large language model, it answers aloud and controls devices.SolderingESP32-S3 DevKitCan be built in an evening

Macless Haystack

DIY tracking tag for your own things: an ESP32 beacon that nearby iPhones report, located through your own server.No solderingESP32 DevKitCan be built in an evening
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ESP32 BLE2MQTT

Bridge between Bluetooth LE gadgets and MQTT: read and control any GATT characteristic from your smart home.No solderingESP32 DevKitCan be built in an evening
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Hyperk

Fast Wi-Fi controller for addressable LED strips behind a TV, made for HyperHDR ambient lighting.SolderingESP32 DevKit and 4 more boardsCan be built in an evening

ESPectre

Motion sensor made of Wi-Fi: senses people moving through a room from changes in the radio channel, no camera.No solderingESP32 DevKit and 4 more boardsCan be built in an evening

ESPHome Web starter

Starter firmware that puts a bare board on your Wi-Fi so ESPHome and Home Assistant can adopt and program it.No solderingESP32 DevKit and 4 more boardsCan be built in an evening

SpotMicro ESP32 Leika

Brain for a 3D printed four-legged robot dog: walking gaits, a 3D model in the browser and a camera stream.SolderingESP32-CAM and 2 more boards

FluidDial

Pendant for FluidNC machines on the yellow display: jog axes, home, probe and run files from your hand.No solderingCheap Yellow DisplayCan be built in an evening

FluidNC

CNC controller for routers, laser engravers and pen plotters: G-code, stepper and servo motors, a web UI over Wi-Fi.SolderingESP32 DevKit and 1 more boardCan be built in an evening

ESP-FC

Flight controller firmware for quadcopters on a plain ESP32, set up from the Betaflight Configurator.SolderingESP32 DevKit and 1 more boardCan be built in an evening

DroneBridge for ESP32

Wireless telemetry link for drones, planes and rovers: MAVLink or MSP over Wi-Fi or ESP-NOW to your ground station.SolderingESP32 DevKit and 3 more boardsCan be built in an evening

Plai

Standalone Meshtastic messenger for the Cardputer ADV with the LoRa cap: type and read mesh chats with no phone.No solderingM5Stack Cardputer ADVCan be built in an evening
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ChimeraBLE

Bluetooth LE research tool: scan, read GATT services, decode adverts and HID, clone and proxy your own devices.No solderingM5Stack Cardputer and 1 more boardCan be built in an evening

OpenMQTTGateway

Reads hundreds of Bluetooth sensors, scales and plant monitors around the house and sends them to Home Assistant.No solderingESP32 DevKit and 3 more boardsCan be built in an evening

ATS Mini

Open firmware for the pocket ATS Mini receiver: FM, AM, longwave and shortwave with SSB, RDS and band scanning.No solderingATS Mini receiverCan be built in an evening

Saitama

Standalone MeshCore messenger for the T-Deck Plus: chats, contacts and offline maps with no phone at all.No solderingLilyGO T-DeckCan be built in an evening

RNode Firmware

Turns a LoRa board into an RNode radio for Reticulum, the encrypted network that runs over any link.No solderingHeltec WiFi LoRa 32 V3 and 3 more boardsCan be built in an evening

LoRa APRS iGate

Ham radio gateway that hears LoRa APRS trackers nearby and forwards their positions and messages to aprs.fi.No solderingESP32 DevKit and 2 more boardsCan be built in an evening

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