[Andrew Lamchenko], who has built a number of small e-ink-based sensors this year, released another design called the eON Indoor Air Quality Sensor. As his previous sensor designs, the eON boasts a ...

A camera’s image sensor is one of the most important pieces of tech to capture images. It’s the small element deep inside your camera that converts light waves into electronic signals that actually ...

Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task that could be performed only by trained scientists using very sophisticated – and very expensive – equipment. That has changed with the rapid growth ...

Here is the circuit diagram of a simple steam sensor, wired around a handful of inexpensive components. This steam sensor can be connected to a microcontroller’s I/O port directly. The steam sensor ...

German engineer Gaurav Singh has designed and built an industrial USB box camera in a custom 3D-printed case that not only accepts interchangeable lenses, but the image sensor can also be swapped out ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Whisker Labs, which is bringing next generation total home intelligence technologies to market, today announced that its DIY Home Energy Monitoring Sensor has ...

If you're looking to expand your smart home setup but don't know where to start, consider these five essential gadgets for ...

Turbidity is an internationally recognized criterion for assessing drinking water quality, and a Turbidity Meter is an optoelectronic instrument that assesses turbidity by measuring the scattering of ...

If you’re trying to detect the orientation of an object, sometimes you really don’t need a 6DOF gyro and accelerometer. Hell, if you only need to detect if an object is tilted, you can get a simple ...

Take a glance at the dozens of options available in DIY home security products—from security systems and cameras to video doorbells, smart locks, and more—and you might think the market is pretty much ...

With competitors like Canary and Nest coming quickly behind, Simplisafe, a small, Boston-based security company, is pulling out the stops. After updating their software and mobile interface late last ...