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[Kato RC Publishing Article #38] To the Skies for $10—The Man Who Built a Transmitter with an ESP32, His 3 Crashes, and 1 Awakening

"I looked at the price of standard RC transmitters and didn't want to buy anything." The project log posted on Hackaday.io begins with this single line. The author is an anonymous individual. They ...
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[Kato RC #48] The Day I Built a 108 km/h Rocket Drone for $155 — The ESP-BLAST and ESP32 Revolution

Prologue — Why an ESP32 Drone Now? March 2026. A video posted by DIY engineer "Max Imagination" on YouTube shook the hobbyist world. The title was "Build The Smallest ESP32 Brushless Rocket Drone | ...

Track Room Occupancy Without Cameras Using ESP32 Wi-Fi Drops

Learn how to repurpose your spare ESP32 boards into cost-effective presence detection sensors using the Tommy Sense ...
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Make A DIY E-ink Faceplate For Valve’s Steam Machine

Valve has always designed hacker-friendly hardware, and in that spirit, [NaKyle Wright] released Inkterface, a design for an ...