Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

Last year we brought word of a project from [Shyri Villar] that turned a stock Game Boy Advance into a Bluetooth controller by exploiting the system’s “multiboot” capability. The prototype hardware ...

I regularly build ESP32 projects for my smart home. Yet most take a while to work due to hardware wiring and firmware configuration. Besides, fixing the code and troubleshooting the build takes a ...

ESP32 projects are a tinkerer's dream. They're cheap to build, incredibly flexible, and can be quick to put together. There are plenty of ESP32 projects that you can build in an hour or less. This is ...