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The Electromaker Show · 23 Jan 2025 · 24m · Episode 167

What this episode covers

The host reviews several maker projects, including Tomasz of Mellow Labs' Dry Laundry Smart Sensor using an ESP32 and resistance measurement, and Eamon Magd's fortune-telling wizard staff built with an Arduino and vibration sensor. The episode highlights DonutsOrElse's weather-predicting cloak utilizing a Blues Wireless board and ESP32, and announces the winner of an ESP32 C6 development kit competition. The Product of the Week is the Seeed Studio SenseCap S2104, a rugged LoRaWAN soil sensor with a 10-year battery life, followed by a roundup of Embedded World microcontroller announcements and crowdfunding projects like Whisker and BioData MIDI Interface.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Mellow Labs, Blues Wireless, Seeed Studio, Silicon Labs, Nordic Semiconductor, Texas Instruments
Products
SenseCap S2104, Arduino Nano Matter, Whisker, Flipper Zero, BioData MIDI Interface
Chips
ESP32, ESP32 C6, nRF5340, nRF7002, C2000
Also
Home Assistant, Eamon Magd, Arduino, DonutsOrElse, LoRaWAN, Embedded World

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