Uladzislau Bayouski

Hold your phone perfectly still. Even doing nothing, it knows which way up it is, how bright the room is, how close your face is, and what the air pressure is doing — a dozen tiny devices measuring the physical world thousands of times a second. Every connected device starts exactly there. Strip away the cloud, the dashboards, the machine learning: IoT makes one simple promise — something, somewhere, is measuring something real. Take the sensors away and the Internet of Things is just the Internet. Yet sensors are the part every tutorial sprints past. "Wire the DHT22 to pin 4" — with no word on what the thing actually is, why its readings wobble, or why two identical modules disagree by two degrees. This is Sensors 101: what they are, how they talk, which families matter, and what the datasheet really means. 👁️ The Short Version A sensor is a transducer — it converts physics (heat, light, motion, chemistry) into an electrical signal. The mental model that actually works...

Just rode through Demo Days Festival at Alameda Point and wow—hundreds of powertrains, real test drives, no pushy salespeople, and a robotics/AI crossover I didn’t know to expect! Jeep Grand Wagoneer, a 0-60 Cybertruck benchmark, full self-driving Model 3, an electric 1932 hot rod, custom go-karts, Toborlife AI robots, robotaxi demos, FPV drone racing, e-bikes, kids zone, and more. If you love cars meets cutting-edge tech, this is the event to bookmark. Demo Days travels across the US—check if it’s coming to your city! 📹 Watch the full video → #DemoDaysFestival #ElectricVehicles #TeslaCybertruck #JeepWagoneer #EVConversion #HumanoidRobots #RoboTaxi #FPVDrone #ElectricHotRod #AutotechShow #AlamedaPoint #BayAreaTech #EVTestDrive #AutomotiveInnovation #IoTForge

Walk to the far end of your garden and watch your phone's Wi-Fi bars die. Thirty metres and a couple of brick walls — that's the honest range of the network that runs your digital life. Now picture a soil-moisture probe on a berry farm, a full kilometre from the farmhouse, streaming readings over Wi-Fi. No SIM card, no subscription, no mesh of repeaters. Same Wi-Fi family, same IP networking, same WPA3 — just redesigned to go far and sip power instead of going fast. It's called Wi-Fi HaLow — IEEE 802.11ah — and it fills a gap most builders don't realise Wi-Fi left open. 📡 The Short Version HaLow moves Wi-Fi below 1 GHz (902–928 MHz in the US, 863–868 MHz in Europe) and narrows the channels, trading speed for reach and battery life: Range: a kilometre to battery devices routinely; Morse Micro's 2024 line-of-sight record stands at 15.9 km Speed: ~150 kbps up to ~80 Mbps — a hundredth of modern Wi-Fi, and a hundred times most LPWANs Scale: up to 8,192 devic...

Just dropped Part 2 of Open Sauce 2026 coverage! This year brought deeper builds, honest reflections, and standout moments like the Living Piano going wireless, Floppy Drive V2 music, Terra Nova Atlas in full VR+haptics, and Oshkat’s remote-driven RC rig. Shoutout to DigiKey for stepping up DIY support. Catch the full tour and demo deep-dives now! https://youtube.com/@IoTForge 📹 Watch the full video → #OpenSauce2026 #MakerFestival #DIYTech #IoTForge

At 2 a.m., a compressor in a cheese factory outside Leeds began to fail — no bang, no alarm, just a bearing temperature climbing half a degree an hour. The sensors saw it. Readings landed in a database all night, faithfully. But data in a database is invisible. What saved the batch was a wall-mounted screen in the corridor, where one amber line had bent upwards away from its neighbours. The morning engineer glanced at it on the way to the kettle, frowned, and swapped the bearing before lunch. IoT projects live or die not on whether they collect data, but on whether anyone can see it at the moment seeing matters. In 2026, the default way to see it is the same pair of tools everywhere: InfluxDB to remember, Grafana to explain. 📈 The Short Version The dashboard is usually the last thing built — and the only part anyone ever sees. The mental model that actually works: the database remembers, the dashboard explains. Every real deployment is the same five-stage pipeline: Sensors pub...

I closed the lid on my first weather station and watched the temperature climb. Nothing outside had changed. The sun hadn't moved. What had changed was airflow — a Raspberry Pi sealed in a plastic box heats its own sensors, and the Sense HAT's thermometer sits a few millimetres from the CPU. My station wasn't measuring the weather. It was measuring itself. That one lesson is why this project exists. Horus started as a copy of a well-known Sense HAT build and ended up with a waterproof case, a fan, a CPU-corrected temperature, joystick-driven displays, dew point calculation, exception logging and a feed into Weather Underground's public network. It's a weekend build. It also teaches more about sensors than most textbooks. 🌦️ The Short Version What you need: a Raspberry Pi (a 2 with a Wi-Fi dongle, a 3, or a Zero W), an Astro Pi Sense HAT, a microSD card, a power supply and a waterproof enclosure. What the HAT gives you: temperature, humidity and pressure sen...