Amazing hacks, singing MCUs, Raspberry Pi AI camera, tiny robot ESP32 devboards, and more!

The Electromaker Show · 3 Oct 2024 · 23m · Episode 157

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Ian from Electromaker reviews several maker projects, including Mellow Labs' automated washing machine detergent dispenser and aesthetic's thermal-sensor-driven Mr. Krabs violin. He highlights Carl Bugeja's tiny ESP32-C3 devboard with an integrated IMU and the Makerdiary iMX RT1011 Nano, a $15 board featuring an NXP Cortex-M7 processor. The episode also covers the Raspberry Pi AI Camera Module for edge detection and Ollie Q's internet-controlled Roomba project.

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Companies: Mellow Labs, NXP
Products: Seeed Studio Xiao RA4M1, Raspberry Pi AI Camera Module, Makerdiary iMX RT1011 Nano
Chips: ESP32-C3, Sony IMX 500
Also: Arduino, CircuitPython, Zephyr

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Amazing hacks, singing MCUs, Raspberry Pi AI camera, tiny robot ESP32 devboards, and more!

What this episode covers

Most relevant to

Topics

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