Uladzislau Bayouski

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...

Excited to share our latest deep dive into Open Sauce 2026, the ultimate festival for people who make things. From homemade robots and backyard inventions to AI-powered experiences, this event is pure creative chaos and inspiration. Highlights include a newspaper kayak, robotic hands with manual and autonomous modes, a retro AI phone that chats with your future self, a bomb-defusal arena, an automated boba machine, an AI portrait booth, an open-source fish observation system, modular keyboard designs, a giant green mechanical dragon, silicone masks crafted to fit your face, and a portable BattleBots-style robot you can drive. We also caught up with familiar faces and met incredible new creators, leaving with ideas for our own future builds. Watch the full tour and chapter-by-chapter breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3evgzF-nrU Stay connected with IoT Forge for more innovations and maker culture: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@IoTForge - Jo...

Excited to share our latest deep dive: Three Students Broke the Internet With Your Webcam. This episode unpacks the Mirai story from its Minecraft roots to the massive 2026 impact, detailing the four-step attack chain, the key takedowns like Dyn and OVH, and the five crucial lessons the industry still hasn’t fully embraced. If you’re into cybersecurity, IoT, or the history of how connected devices changed the web, this is a must-watch. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9V-rBGr3A #IoT #Cybersecurity #Mirai #Botnet #DDoS #IoTSecurity #InternetOfThings #TechHistory #IoTForge #IoTForgeUnplugged

In a utility cupboard somewhere in Manchester, a gas meter fitted in 2015 is still sending a reading every night. Same battery. Nobody has opened the case. Meanwhile, the ESP32 sensor you built last weekend — the one on the windowsill reporting temperature to a dashboard — is dead. Three days on two AA cells. The two devices aren't as different as they look. Both are a microcontroller, a sensor and a radio. Both wake up, take a measurement, send a few bytes and go back to sleep. The difference between three days and fifteen years isn't a better battery — it's what the device does with the 99.8% of its life when nothing is happening. That's what power management in IoT actually is: not a component you buy, but a set of decisions about sleeping, waking and talking. 🔋 The Short Version Every battery-life question comes down to one division: capacity divided by average current. A pair of AA lithium cells holds about 3,000 mAh. Draw 3 mA on average and you get six week...

Excited to share our latest YouTube feature: A deep dive into the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. We walk you through the full history of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, from the Manhattan Project to the Nevada Test Site, and the real human costs behind it. In this candid tour, you’ll get: - A front-row look at the Ground Zero Theater and a realistic simulated blast - Nevada Test Site history and Mercury, Nevada’s origins - Einstein’s 1939 letter to Roosevelt and how it began - Real inert warheads, testing gear, and protective equipment - Underground testing tunnels, delivery systems, and the evolution of nuclear science - Interactive exhibits you can actually test, plus insights into nuclear medicine and energy - Oppenheimer, Trinity, and the lasting impact on culture and policy - Thoughtful context on the risks, ethics, and the broader story of science If you’re curious about how history, science, and policy intersect, this is a must-watch. Watch the full video...

A water meter buried in a concrete pit, three floors underground, sends one tiny reading a day. It has no power outlet, no Wi-Fi in range, and it needs to keep doing this for ten years on a battery you'll never replace. Wi-Fi can't reach it. Bluetooth and Thread can't travel that far. LoRaWAN could — if someone built and ran a gateway nearby. But there's already a network that blankets the entire city, penetrates deep underground, is professionally maintained, and charges pennies per device per month. It's the cellular network — running two special low-power modes built for exactly this. Those modes are NB-IoT and LTE-M . 📶 The Short Version NB-IoT and LTE-M sit in the gap no other protocol covers: the reach and reliability of the cellular network, stripped down to sip power and cost almost nothing. They're the licensed-spectrum answer to LoRaWAN — you don't run the infrastructure, a carrier does, and it already covers everywhere. NB-IoT is the...