Uladzislau Bayouski

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...

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