IoT Projects

Banned Book Library on a WiFi Smart Bulb

Rick Osgood modified a WiFi smart light bulb to host a banned book library. This is a highly creative reuse of existing IoT technology and the write-up is great. - richardosgood

Making an Autonomous Boat to Cross the Atlantic

Adafruit Forums user Autonomous_Sailboat built an autonomous motorboat to test a navigation system for an even more ambitious autonomous sailboat. - Adafruit Blog

Weathergotchi is an E-Paper Climate Logger

A cute, tiny, open-source climate logger that clips onto your backpack. The YouTube build is a fun watch, too. - Adafruit Blog

LLM Agent Embodiment Kit

Inspired by Olivia Zhu’s paper - “A Minimal Self-Perceiving Embodiment for Large Language Models”, this project gives an LLM agent access to a physical device with environmental sensors. Coupled with an agent skill, the physical embodiment kit runs in a closed-loop to sense and express its environment. - Adafruit Learning System

Tiny BLE Scanner

If you want to know what Bluetooth Low Energy devices are broadcasting, this tiny scanner picks up packets from nearby devices and displays them. - Adafruit Learning System

Plane Spotter — a Tactical ADS-B Desk Radar

This project from Italian maker Danilo Cannas shows the aircraft flying above your home in real-time. - Instructables

IoT News and More!

Home Assistant Gets a Matter Upgrade

After four months of development, the newest version of Matter for Home Assistant has been released. The Matter server has been completely rewritten using the Matter.js library. This feature seems to benefit both Home Assistant, and Matter.js, making it a win for the Open Home Foundation. - home-assistant blog

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