# Maker Wizardry, LoRaWAN Decade Long Battery Life Sensors, The Cutest Hacking Tool Ever, and More!

- Show: [The Electromaker Show](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show)
- Published: 2025-01-23
- Length: 24m
- Episode: 167
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2025-01-23-maker-wizardry-lorawan-decade-long-battery-life-sensors-the-cutest-hacking-tool
- Listen: https://electromaker.libsyn.com/maker-wizardry-lorawan-decade-long-battery-life-sensors-the-cutest-hacking-tool-ever-and-more

## Summary

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.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2025-01-23-maker-wizardry-lorawan-decade-long-battery-life-sensors-the-cutest-hacking-tool#t=0) Introduction and Show Format

## Topics

- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)
- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)
- [Wireless & RF](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/wireless-and-rf)
- [Crowdfunding & preorders](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/crowdfunding)
- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Mellow Labs (company)
- ESP32 (chip)
- Home Assistant (other)
- Eamon Magd (other)
- Arduino (other)
- DonutsOrElse (other)
- Blues Wireless (company)
- ESP32 C6 (chip)
- Seeed Studio (company)
- SenseCap S2104 (product)
- LoRaWAN (other)
- Embedded World (other)
- Arduino Nano Matter (product)
- Silicon Labs (company)
- Nordic Semiconductor (company)
- nRF5340 (chip)
- nRF7002 (chip)
- Texas Instruments (company)
- C2000 (chip)
- Whisker (product)
- Flipper Zero (product)
- BioData MIDI Interface (product)

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