Uladzislau Bayouski

Excited to share IoT Forge's latest YouTube episode from the Computer History Museum: Chatbots Decoded! We take a curated tour through AI, chatbots, and how software quietly reshaped everyday life. Highlights include: - World of Warcraft corner with original art, a 2007 server blade, the Orc statue, and the Frostmourne sword - How Wikipedia and Photoshop changed truth and visuals online - MRI demo showing how imaging reveals what's inside our bodies - A real crash-test Buick and how safety data evolved from 1994 to 2012 - The evolution of photography and sound tech - The main event Chatbots Decoded: early AI visions, hardware behind AI, an Android-like host explaining voice assistants, and Ameca the humanoid robot speaking multiple languages with a live Q&A - An orbital computation demo and a working IBM mainframe, a true time machine for computing If you love AI, robotics, and real-world tech impact, this is for you. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLmHIkx0_D...

Your smartwatch knows your heart rate. Your fitness band tracks your sleep. But do you know what's actually happening inside those devices? Building your own biometric tracker changes that completely. And it's more achievable than you think. The Short Version A DIY wearable biometric tracker comes down to three layers working together: sensing , processing , and transmitting . Get those three right, and you have a device that can measure heart rate, blood oxygen (SpO2), skin temperature, and movement — continuously, on your wrist. The core hardware stack: MAX30102 — optical sensor for heart rate and SpO2 via photoplethysmography (PPG). Shines light into your skin, measures how much bounces back DS18B20 — waterproof temperature probe for skin surface readings MPU-6050 — 6-axis accelerometer + gyroscope for motion tracking and step counting ESP32 — the brain. Handles sensor fusion, runs the BLE stack, and pushes data to your phone or dashboard LiPo battery + TP4056...

Your Google Home Mini, Rebuilt for Privacy Every time you ask your Google Home Mini to turn off the lights, that audio makes a round trip to Google's servers — through infrastructure you don't control — before anything actually happens in your home. A new open hardware project called MiciMike is here to cut that wire entirely. The Short Version MiciMike is a drop-in replacement PCB for the first-gen Google Home Mini. Swap out the original mainboard, slot in MiciMike — same enclosure, same speaker, same touch sensors. You're only replacing the brain. The new brain runs on an ESP32-S3 and an XMOS XU316 voice processor, paired with Home Assistant over your local network. Here's what that means in practice: Wake-word detection and audio preprocessing: 100% on-device Speech recognition and TTS: handled locally by Home Assistant Audio never leaves your home. At any step. Works indefinitely — no Google account, no cloud dependency, no plug-pull risk And it stil...

Most IoT architectures look like this: devices collect data, the cloud processes it. Simple. Clean. And for a lot of use cases — completely fine. But as deployments scale and real-time decisions matter, that round trip to the cloud starts to hurt. That's where fog computing comes in. The Short Version Fog computing adds a processing layer between your devices and the cloud. Not instead of the cloud — between it and the edge. Think of it as a local coordinator: close enough to the devices to act fast, powerful enough to filter, aggregate, and pre-process before anything goes upstream. Why does it matter? Latency : decisions that need to happen in milliseconds can't wait for a cloud round trip Bandwidth : sending raw sensor data from thousands of devices is expensive — fog filters it first Reliability : local processing keeps working when the internet goes down Privacy : sensitive data can be handled locally, never leaving the site A factory floor, a smart hospital, a...

Google Just Solved One of AI's Biggest Hidden Bottlenecks Every time an LLM generates a response, it quietly runs one of the most memory-hungry operations in computing — the KV cache . As conversations get longer and models get bigger, it becomes a wall. Expensive. Slow. Stubborn. Google Research just published a paper that hits that wall with a sledgehammer. The Short Version Traditional quantization methods save space on data, then spend it right back storing bookkeeping constants. You compressed the model, then padded it back out again. 🤦 Google's answer — TurboQuant — is a trio of algorithms that eliminates the overhead entirely, not by compressing it, but by redesigning the geometry so it was never needed in the first place. The results: KV cache down to 3 bits — no retraining required Memory footprint reduced by 6x Up to 8x speedup on H100 GPUs Long-context benchmark accuracy? Essentially unchanged And it outperformed methods hand-tuned to specific datase...

CES 2026 blew my mind! robots dancing like humans, ping pong pros, autonomous food bots, and smart city AI powering daily life. from precise robotic hands to factory automation, the jump from demo to real-world deployment is here. what robot impressed you most? #CES2026 #Robotics #RobotDance #FutureTech #IoT #Automation #ArtificialIntelligence #TechExpo #SmartCity #Innovation #HumanoidRobot #Robotics2026 #TechTrends #IndustrialAutomation #AIoT #RobotPingPong #HomeRobots #ConsumerTech #RobotCooking