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2026 15
- 12 Boards one script...
- ESP32 Module Info
- Get started with the ESP-IDF 6
- Another massive AliExpress unbagging
- Hacking a Cheap Night Light
- Why Won't My Board Reset?
- I Thought SOT666 Was a Standard - It Isn’t.
- MAX30102 + ESP32-C3 0.4 inch OLED
- Size Does Matter: Why -Os Beat -O2 on My ESP32-S3
- I Turned an ESP32 into a Thermal USB Webcam
- Amazon Basics vs SanDisk: I Cut Them Open
- I've no idea why I fixed this...
- Drones and Lasers - what could possibly go wrong?
- Train Surgery
- ESP32 Rainbow QA - A tale of three boards
2025 29
- That was 2025!
- Stop Using printf() - Debug ESP32 the Right Way
- ESP32-S3 Dev Board Assembly
- I Built a 27V PCB to Fix This $3 Display...
- I made a 10¢ MCU Talk
- Brain Surgery
- 10 Cent Music Machine
- PDM Microphone Mystery
- ESP32-S3 as a USB Audio Device
- High Voltage Coin Cell
- Easy ESP32-S3 Dev Board
- Red Arcade Thing Repair
- This could have caught fire!
- A better serial plotter
- Tearing Down a Bistable Cholesteric Display
- This number does nothing...
- And here's the video
- My PCB Has a Digital Twin
- Even better fix!
- Oops I Did It Again
- Crowdfunding Success - Was it worth it?
- World’s Smallest USB-C Li-Ion Charger?!
- Vibe-Coding a PCB - surprisingly good
- Firmware Vibing
- More fun and games with high voltage...
- ⚡️Danger danger - high voltage⚡️
- What's wrong with my lightbulbs?
- Electronic Chopsticks!
- Custom KiCad Silk Screen
2024 22
- That's a wrap!
- Old School Tape Loading
- But does it run DOOM?
- ESP32 ZX Spectrum is now live on Crowd Supply
- This really sucks.. in a good way
- I got interviewed by Robert Feranec
- Time to do a bit more testing
- 1 Touch Pin, 8 Touch Pads
- I broke it, and then I fixed it...
- ESP32-S3 ZX Spectrum
- Dave come see, it's beautiful man!
- Look at My Shiny Crystal Balls!
- Even Faster JPEG Decoding!
- I got this feeling... Bezos is watching me...
- Are My USB Cables Any Good?
- Extras Video - DVD Repair
- Making Hard PCBs At Home?
- Easy - KiCad Symbol, Footprint and 3D Model!
- "16-bit" Mini Handheld Video Arcade Game - What's Inside?
- ESP32-TV Version 3
- We don't need a DAC - ESP32 PDM Audio
- Live GPIO View
2023 31
- Unexpected Presents!
- Christmas Quiz - 9pm (GMT) tonight
- Interesting Addressable LED Curtain
- ESP32-S3 Which Pins Should I Use?
- A Potentially Explosive Error!
- Printing PCBs At Home!
- I need more USB power...
- 3D Printing… One Day I’ll Get It Right First Time…
- New PCB Design - I think this is it...
- SD Card Shenanigans - Using the ESP32-S3 in USBMSC
- The Fastest ESP32 JPEG Decoder?
- Decoding AVI Files For Fun And...
- SD Card Video Player
- Sound And Vision! ESP32 Streaming Video and Audio
- Sound and (almost) Vision!
- FNIRSI Freebies
- Adventures In Image Processing
- I feel the need… the need for hardware SPI
- Arduino Nano ESP32 - It's nice - but maybe not for me...
- Am I Full of Hot Air?
- Blinking Heck! It Works!
- Mailbag time!
- TinyTV Teardown
- Minimalist Microcontroller: Building a Bare-Bones Dev Board
- A Replacement For AliExpress? An Amazon Killer?
- We're DOOMed!
- Sneak Peak At the Next Video
- Visit to The Center of Computing History
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