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Playable Tomb Raider runs on a humble 1-watt chip — $25 board with dual-core 400 MHz ESP32-P4 MCU scales OpenLara up to 1,024 x 600 playable pixels (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-13 | by Mark Tyson | get ESP32-P4 development board → | tags: esp32-p4, openlara, tomb raider

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I Made a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC Smart with an ESP32 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get ESP32-DevKitC development board → | tags: esp32, mitsubishi, air conditioner

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ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-06 | tags: esp32 bit pirate, esp32-s3, web serial

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I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-03 | by Dídac Sabatés | tags: withings body+, home assistant, esp32

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RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-01 | get LilyGO T-SIM7000G ESP32 LTE module → | tags: rotarycell, esp32-s3, rotary phone

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M5Stack Launches PaperMono (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | get M5Stack M5Paper ESP32 E-Ink development kit → | tags: m5stack, papermono, esp32-s3

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Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: pine time, esp32, infini time

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Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: pine time, esp32, infini time

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Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: tea5767, esp32, ky-040

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An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: esp32-s3, tinyml, qapla

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ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: esp32-c3, supermini, antenna modification

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Instrumenting my espresso machine with OpenTelemetry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: opentelemetry, gaggimate, esp32

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Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: esp32, home assistant, stepper motor

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Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: esp32, home assistant, stepper motor

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Linux on ESP32 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: linux, esp32, esp32-s31

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AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32-s3, google per-layer embeddings, slvdev

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An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-26 | tags: esp32, ads-b, makerworld

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Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: esp32-s3, gemma models, per-layer embeddings

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The Rust on ESP Book (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: rust, esp32, esp-idf

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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: esp32, pin detection, bowling system

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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32, pi-hole, dns filtering

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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32, pi-hole, dns filtering

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I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: mmwave, radar, asbestos

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Playing Game Boy on an E-Ink screen looks surprisingly good (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-30 | get Game Boy E-Ink Screen Kit → | tags: game boy, e-ink display, esp32

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Designer turns discontinued E-Ink dev board into a 60Hz Game Boy handheld — dual-core chip runs at 100% to power handheld, 960x540 display employs ultra-low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-30 | by Zak Killian | get E-Ink Game Boy Kit → | tags: m5stack, esp32-s3, modos labs

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I built a whole-home ad blocker with a $7 ESP32-S3 board - and it took just minutes (zdnet.com)

2026-06-29 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi Module → | tags: esp32-s3, raspberry pi, dns sinkhole

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Researcher turns wi-fi smart lightbulb into a Banned Book Library — open source project makes digital books available via a server and open Wi-Fi access point hacked into an ESP32-powered bulb (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Mark Tyson | get ESP32 Wi-Fi Smart Lightbulb → | tags: esp32, tasmota, banned books

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I programmed a $7 ESP32-S3 board to block all computer's web ads - and it took just minutes (zdnet.com)

2026-06-18 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi Module → | tags: esp32-s3, raspberry pi, dns sinkhole

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How I block ads with a $7 Raspberry Pi alternative - it's easy (zdnet.com)

2026-06-17 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Pi-hole Network Ad Blocker → | tags: raspberry pi, esp32, ad blocking

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Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Digital Alarm Clock Kit → | tags: capacitor, esp32, jlcpcb