These are the projects I recommend building instead of just buying something off the shelf.

Amazon Alexa on-device AI now runs in millions of Echo homes, but Panos Panay’s July 2026 CNBC interview reveals the split: ...

After yelling at Alexa like a crazy person for the third or fourth time in one day, I figured something had to change. It was ...

Learn how to program speech synthesis for an animatronic mouth using Python and Arduino. Discover how to synchronize speech ...

Amazon's head of devices and services discussed the company's focus on artificial intelligence, Alexa Plus and new types of ...

The AI-enhanced Alexa for Shopping can auto-buy items once they hit a certain price, but there’s only a limited window for ...

"Matter" is spreading as a common standard for smart home devices. Supporting Matter makes it easier to handle devices from multiple smart home environments, such as Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon ...

Arduino has just announced the Arduino Matter Discovery Bundle (AKX00081), an all-in-one development kit designed to help users learn, prototype, and build Matter-over-Thread smart home devices ...

What kind of microcontroller is the ESP32-S3 Sense? The ESP32-S3 Sense is a small, fingertip-sized microcontroller that costs only 3,000 yen, but its performance should not be underestimated.