Smart home frameworks, broadly speaking, are meant to give you a greater degree of control over the features and functions of your home via interconnected devices. No matter how prevalent smart home ...

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New insights from multiple sources highlight both the challenges and opportunities facing DIYers and homebuilders in 2026. MUO identifies poor planning, unstable power supplies, and skill gaps as key ...

The benefits of smart home automation may keep you from ever going back to a "dumb" home again. Controlling the temperature, turning on the lights, locking the doors, and seeing who's at the door — ...

With the shortage of web cams still persisting you may be interested in a DIY project published by Raspberry Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling. Using a Raspberry Pi Zero and the latest HQ lens and mount ...

As many suspected would eventually happen, the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have taken its Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and are now offering it as a more compact Compute Module. The new Raspberry Pi ...

Musicians and makers interested in building their very own DIY synthesizer may be interested in a new Raspberry Pi project published to the Hackster.io website this month. The custom Raspberry Pi ...

My smart home doesn't need a Raspberry Pi anymore, and the ESP32 just proved it ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

The Raspberry Pi—a single-board computer that lets you run Linux systems on devices the size of a deck of cards—is popular with DIYers thanks to its small size and extreme power. But when you need ...

Are you going stir crazy yet? Depending on what field you are in, you might find yourself on a leave of absence. Even if not, many parts of the country are on quarantine as social distancing takes ...