Recently, I exhausted my stock of common passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor modules and was looking for a new one to play with. I searched the web for a small type with self-contained electronics.

The M-Light 7 motion sensor light has been designed to provide a small adjustable lighting system that can be positioned almost anywhere and used as a nightlight thanks to its motion sensor activation ...

Another piece of technology that is prevalent in many smart home devices is Matter. Having devices with Matter protocol allows you to keep a hub from one manufacturer and connect to another device -- ...

Roughly the size of a AA battery, the Terrella6 is a heading and motion sensor capable of determining roll, pitch, yaw, translational accelerations, angular rates, and compass heading. The sealed ...

Bosch Sensortec has launched a 9-axis motion sensor in a 2.5 x 3.0 x 0.95 mm3 package, claiming it to be the world’s smallest. BMX160 includes accelerometer, gyroscope and geomagnetic sensors, and ...

It’s really hard to overstate how awesome ESP8266 development boards like the Wemos D1 Mini really are. For literally a couple of dollars you can get a decently powerful Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller ...

It was a nice surprise that fit into my smart home system.

Home automation with high usefulness and low annoyance tends to rely on reliable person sensing, and [francescopace]’s ESPectre shows one way to do that cheaply and easily by leveraging hardware ...