Hackaday

Bringing Bluetooth To The Zune

The Zune might have joined the portable media player game too late to ever really be competition for the iPod, but that doesn ...
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I built an ESP32-powered presence sensor using only Bluetooth, here's how it works

For smart home deployments, there are a lot of ways to track the presence of individuals in a room. There are motion detection sensors that use mmWave and PIR, and you can also use simple detection ...
CNX Software

ESP32-S3 wide touch display development board features a 640×172 touch LCD, AI voice support

Waveshare has recently introduced ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-3.49, an ESP32-S3-based wide touch display (640×172) development board ...
heise online

Undocumented commands tear security hole in ESP32 Bluetooth

The cheap WLAN and Bluetooth chips from the manufacturer Espressif, ESP32, contain undocumented commands in the Bluetooth hardware communication in current firmware versions. This opens up a security ...
CNX Software

Espressif’s EchoEar ESP32-S3 voice-controlled AI chatbot runs esp-brookesia firmware

Espressif Systems' EchoEar is a compact ESP32-S3 AI chatbot designed for voice interaction and edge AI applications, for smart toys, voice-enabled ...
Bleeping Computer

Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

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 ...