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5 reasons a $10 Bluetooth proxy should be your next smart home investment

This DIY Bluetooth proxy can dramatically improve range, speed, and privacy in your smart home without adding complexity.
Electronics Weekly

Arduino puts Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ESP32 processor into Nano

Arduino has introduced a Nano shaped board with a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE capable Espressif’s ESP32-S3 microcontroller, supporting it with the Arduino IDE and MicroPython. “Beginners can explore in an ...
Liliputing

Waveshare ESP32-P4-Nano is a tiny RISC-V dev board with Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth

The Waveshare ESP32-P4-Nano is a tiny, inexpensive, low-power development board powered by a dual-core RISC-V processor. Available now from Waveshare or AliExpress for around $19 and up, the little ...
Hackaday

A Simple $25 Robot Based On The ESP32

Paul McCabe] wrote in to let us know about his $25 robot. This small wheeled robot is based on an ESP32 and made using ...
Hackaday

The ESP32 Bluetooth Backdoor That Wasn’t

Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs. Specifically a backdoor on the Bluetooth side that would give a ...
heise online

Undocumented commands tear security hole in ESP32 Bluetooth

The cheap WLAN and Bluetooth chips from the manufacturer Espressif, ESP32, contain undocumented commands in the Bluetooth hardware communication in current firmware versions. This opens up a security ...
Bleeping Computer

Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...