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It's easy to spend $30 on a single-purpose Zigbee motion sensor or even $60 on smart air quality monitors, while a far more powerful device just sits in your junk drawer. A standard ESP32-based IoT ...

I’ve been building ESP32-based smart home devices using cheap sensors for the past few months. My drawer is filled with ESP32 boards, PIR modules, temperature sensors, sound sensors, light sensors, ...

An overwhelming majority of handheld devices these days have ambient light sensors built into them. A large percentage of TVs and monitors do, too, and that proportion is growing. The sensors allow ...

The open-source app "Adaptive Theme: Auto Dark Mode" extends Android with automatic dark mode switching via light sensor. This is exactly where the app “Adaptive Theme” comes in, which runs ...