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I'm doing a project, a very simple one: it's a sous vide cooker. The details don't matter, as in this article we are going to focus on a single component: the KY-040 rotary encoder.

If you are here, you have most likely just bought a KY-040 clone from China, and are looking into how to hook it u...

A few months ago, my father bought himself a water purifier. It's a quite convenient and eco-friendly device which filters tap water, and optionally cools it and carbonates it, eliminating the need of buying bottled water entirely.

The company that sold it to him also sold him a stand-alone fau...

ZigBee is a stack of protocols intended to enable IoT devices to efforlessly form mesh networks and communicate with one another wirelessly. I've been fascinated with the ZigBee platform for a long time now, but I had always been put off by how corporate-y the technology looked like (and boy, I was...