Hackaday

Bringing Bluetooth To The Zune

The Zune might have joined the portable media player game too late to ever really be competition for the iPod, but that doesn ...
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I built an ESP32-powered presence sensor using only Bluetooth, here's how it works

For smart home deployments, there are a lot of ways to track the presence of individuals in a room. There are motion detection sensors that use mmWave and PIR, and you can also use simple detection ...
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

Hard Hat Becomes Bluetooth Direction Finder

Have you ever wanted to find a Bluetooth device out in the wild while looking like the comic relief character from a science-fiction series? You might like Dendrite, the direction-finding hat from ...
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 ...