Guides & Projects for Makers
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Baby Monitor with Sound and Motion Detection
This project revolves around monitoring babies’ and young children’s sleep: You’ll build a baby monitor consisting of two ESP8266 microcontrollers connected via ESP-NOW. On the first microcontroller, you’ll connect a PIR sensor to detect motion and a sound sensor to measure noise levels. The data is sent to a second ESP8266, which is connected to…
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Automatic Plant Watering With An Arduino
If you trust your Arduino more than your green thumb, this project is right for you. A sensor monitors the moisture in the soil – as soon as a certain value is undercut, a water pump starts up and waters your plant. Once the soil is moist enough again, your Arduino stops the pump. Discover…
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Using the ChatGPT API with Python
Using ChatGPT in a browser or as an app has become established for many people. But of course, OpenAI also provides a ChatGPT API that you can use to create texts or have questions answered, for example. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Creating an OpenAI Account To use the ChatGPT API, you need…
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Arduino Snore Stopper with Artificial Intelligence
Snoring is annoying, that’s clear. There are devices, pillows, apps, and many other remedies against it – but most of them probably don’t live up to their promises. If you snore and have promised to do something about it, you can combine your suffering with your hobby using this tutorial: You’ll build an Arduino snore…
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ESP32 Internet Radio
Streaming radio over the internet is commonplace nowadays – but building your own ESP32 internet radio is certainly special! In this tutorial, you’ll construct your own receiver to stream your favorite stations. The project is divided into stages: First, you’ll build a basic online radio with an ESP32-S3 Zero, an amplifier module, and a speaker.…
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Calculate the Next ISS Flyover
Ready to spot the International Space Station from your backyard? This tutorial will show you how to predict the next ISS flyover using Python. Before we dive in, tune into this Google-powered podcast episode to get the lowdown on what makes this project so exciting: Determine the Coordinates for Your Location To calculate when the…