Is your heaving pile of electronic parts shrinking by the day as you finish old back-burnered projects and come up with new ones? Try an old pastime that never gets old: rolling your own sensors using ...

Leaf wetness in crops can help us understand when to treat them to avoid diseases. Monitoring wetness, soil humidity and temperature are all important. The leaf wetness sensor is a sensor used to ...

Can you? Probably. Should you? Probably not.

German engineer Gaurav Singh has designed and built an industrial USB box camera in a custom 3D-printed case that not only accepts interchangeable lenses, but the image sensor can also be swapped out ...

Take a glance at the dozens of options available in DIY home security products—from security systems and cameras to video doorbells, smart locks, and more—and you might think the market is pretty much ...

Too much chatter, too little chatter, fluorescent lights, changing temperature, loud crunching and robotic-sounding phone rings, are traditionally categorized as “annoyances” in the world of ...

Summer is right around the corner, and if you have big home improvement projects on the way, you want to make sure you have the right colors to work with. No matter where you find inspiration, make ...

Xfinity is one of the bigger players in the broadband market, and it’s been expanding into the smart home market with a security-focused add-on service called Xfinity Home. Today, Xfinity announced ...

Don't sleep on these useful sensors.

Matching a color you see in the world with a paint color at the store is next to impossible for the human eye. That’s why the Nix Mini 2 exists. This ingenious $70 pocket-sized device is designed to ...