It is a bizarre, unapologetically delightful piece of maker theatre: someone has put a retro Windows 98 desktop inside a consumer smart toaster and wired the toaster’s controls to a pair of Raspberry Pi boards so you can launch a program called toast.exe and, in effect, make breakfast from a...
An engineer has turned a discarded disposable vape into a functioning web server — and the stunt is more than a neat hack: it’s a concise demonstration of how tiny, low-cost microcontrollers embedded in throwaway consumer goods can be repurposed to run real network stacks and serve pages, while...
battery safety
cortex-m0plus
cybersecurity
device reuse
e-waste
embedded systems
environmental impact
hacking
iot
maker-culture
microcontroller
puya
py32
regulatory policy
serial communication
slip
sustainability
uip
usb
web server