IOT

I’m Turning My Old 3D Printer Into a Pen Plotter — And You Should Too My Creality Ender 3 has been sitting in the corner of the workshop for six months. I upgraded to a Bambu Lab P1S last year and the Ender’s been collecting dust ever since. Selling it would net maybe $100 — … Read more

I was setting up a simple servo test rig on Saturday — the kind of thing I’ve done a dozen times on an ESP32. Potentiometer controls a servo. Basic analogRead, map, servo.write. Nothing fancy. This is the same workbench where I’ve been experimenting with gesture recognition on ESP32, so I had all the hardware within … Read more

Weekly Tech Roundup: May 18–25 — Agentic AI Goes Mainstream 🤖 AI – Google Gemini 3.5 Flash and Omni Launch at I/O 2026 — Google used its I/O 2026 keynote to ship two significant AI releases: Gemini 3.5 Flash, an agent-optimized model that beats the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro on coding benchmarks while running four … Read more

Build an AIoT Predictive Line: Pharma Factory Digital Twin Guide Paperless manufacturing was phase one. Predictive is phase two — and most pharma factories haven’t started the transition. At AUTOMA+ 2026, the conversation shifted from “digitize your records” to “connect every sensor, build a digital twin, and let AI flag deviations before they become batch … Read more

Managing connectivity for thousands of IoT devices across multiple regions, network operators, and regulatory environments remains one of the hardest problems in enterprise IoT. A global IoT service provider in the utilities sector recently faced this exact challenge: scaling device deployments without multiplying operational complexity. Their solution — Thales and Simetric’s unified connectivity platform — … Read more

ESP32 Edge AI: Gesture Recognition with TensorFlow Lite Micro Running machine learning on a microcontroller sounds like science fiction from five years ago. Today it is production reality. TensorFlow Lite Micro puts neural networks on devices with kilobytes of RAM — no operating system, no dynamic allocation, no cloud dependency. This article walks through the … Read more