Dev hacks Xiaomi's Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally — custom firmware allows the product to evade planned obsolescence

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年12月14日 20:36

If the one thing about smart home appliances that deterred you from ever investing in this connected future was how your data was always being routed through servers, you're in for a treat. A skilled developer has hacked his new Xiaomi Humidifier with ESPHome, making the device compatible with Home Assistant.

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Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world

2025年11月10日 22:02

A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.

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Engineer creates ‘blazingly fast’ web server powered by a disposable vape — 'VapeServer' powered by 24 MHz Arm chip with 24 kilobytes of flash, 3KB of SRAM

2025年9月15日 23:53

Engineer and origami artist Bogdan Ionescu has created a web server that runs on a disposable vape.

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Hardcore fan celebrates Alien: Earth by building a fully-working M314 Motion Tracker replica — DreamHAT+ Radar module and Raspberry Pi is effective up to 15 meters, complete with sounds and a display

2025年8月18日 19:52

Electronics hobbyist Rob Smith has built a ‘fully working M314 Motion Tracker’.

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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources

2025年7月5日 00:06

China-tech industry sources allege that 'unresolved hardware challenges,' will mean Optimus design changes.

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SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Review: High RISC

2025年1月26日 22:00

Touted as ‘The Highest Performance RISC-V CPU Development Board in the World’, the HiFive Premier P550 aims to be the development board of choice for RISC developers.

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Arduino Plug and Make Kit Review: The Kit to start your journey

2024年12月28日 23:01

When getting started with electronics, we need a good kit to make the learning process as smooth as possible, and the Arduino Plug and Make Kit could be just the thing you need.

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Cytron Maker Uno RP2040 Review: Budget-focused board

2024年7月19日 20:00

Based upon the Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040, but designed to resemble the classic Arduino Uno, Cytron’s latest board takes aim at the low-cost end of the educators budget.