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Cover illustration for MaTouch ESP32-S3 E Ink Board: A $60 Voice-Ready Dashboard
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MaTouch ESP32-S3 E Ink Board: A $60 Voice-Ready Dashboard

Makerfabs' MaTouch ESP32-S3 pairs a 7.5-inch four-color E Ink screen with a four-mic array for $59.80. Here are the specs and what you can build.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Oct 3, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for TICKEY Puts 48-Color E-Paper on an ESP32-S3 Badge
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TICKEY Puts 48-Color E-Paper on an ESP32-S3 Badge

ENIAC's TICKEY is a 3.8mm clip-on badge with a 3.7-inch 720x480 48-colour e-paper panel and an ESP32-S3, starting near $50 with open firmware.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 18, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for OpenTrailPaper Turns a $90 E-Paper Devkit Into Bike GPS
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OpenTrailPaper Turns a $90 E-Paper Devkit Into Bike GPS

OpenTrailPaper is open-source firmware turning a $90 LILYGO ESP32-S3 devkit into a 4.7-inch offline GPS bike computer with LoRa and .FIT recording.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 6, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for M5Stack Paper Mono Packs LoRa and NFC Into $65 E-Paper
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M5Stack Paper Mono Packs LoRa and NFC Into $65 E-Paper

M5Stack's $65 Paper Mono pairs a 3.97-inch e-paper touchscreen with LoRa, NFC, and an ESP32-S3, plus a 1,150 mAh battery in a shell just 8mm thick.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 21, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32-S3 Music Sequencer Doubles as a Slap Bracelet
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ESP32-S3 Music Sequencer Doubles as a Slap Bracelet

Maker 3DSage built a wearable ESP32-S3 sequencer with brass-rod note input, a translucent PETG case, and a measuring-tape slap bracelet band.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 15, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for EITWatch Reads Hand Gestures With an ESP32-S3 Watch
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EITWatch Reads Hand Gestures With an ESP32-S3 Watch

Northwestern's open-source EITWatch fits eight electrodes on a watch back and hits 92.5% macro-gesture accuracy from a XIAO ESP32-S3 at 48 Hz.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 14, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Token Monitor Shows AI Coding Usage on a 4-Inch Screen
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Token Monitor Shows AI Coding Usage on a 4-Inch Screen

Token Monitor is an ESP32-S3 desktop display tracking Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Antigravity quota, starting at 99 euros with an Apache-2.0 local broker.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 7, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for ZecTrix Note 4 Puts an AI Voice Notepad on E-Paper
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ZecTrix Note 4 Puts an AI Voice Notepad on E-Paper

ZecTrix Note 4 pairs a 4.2-inch E-Ink display with an ESP32-S3, NFC, and a 2,000 mAh battery for $54.99 — and a four-color variant lands near $30.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 6, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32-S3 Runs a 28.9M-Parameter LLM at 9 Tokens/s
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ESP32-S3 Runs a 28.9M-Parameter LLM at 9 Tokens/s

A developer got a 28.9M-parameter language model generating 9 tokens per second on an $8 ESP32-S3, using 4-bit weights and per-layer embeddings in flash.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 4, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for TongDou Desktop Robot Sees You Coming With 24GHz Radar
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TongDou Desktop Robot Sees You Coming With 24GHz Radar

TongDou is an open-source desktop companion robot built on an ESP32-S3 with a brass chassis, OLED face, IMU and 24 GHz radar for presence detection.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 1, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for reTerminal Sticky ePaper Runs Four Open Firmwares
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reTerminal Sticky ePaper Runs Four Open Firmwares

Seeed's $49.90 reTerminal Sticky pairs a 3.97-inch touch ePaper panel with an ESP32-S3 and four open-source firmware options, from e-reader to dashboard.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Open Book Touch Is a Hackable Open-Source E-Reader
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Open Book Touch Is a Hackable Open-Source E-Reader

The Open Book Touch is a DRM-free ESP32-S3 e-reader with a 4.26-inch touch e-paper screen, open firmware, and a replaceable battery, from \$149.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 11, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Makerfabs MaUWB Brings PoE Indoor Location Tracking to Home Assistant
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Makerfabs MaUWB Brings PoE Indoor Location Tracking to Home Assistant

Makerfabs' new MaUWB board pairs an ESP32-S3 with a Qorvo UWB radio and PoE Ethernet to bring accurate, ESPHome-ready indoor location tracking to Home Assistant.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 9, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for This E-Ink Handheld Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 60 Hz on ESP32-S3
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This E-Ink Handheld Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 60 Hz on ESP32-S3

A maker coaxed an e-ink panel into 60 Hz gaming, running a Game Boy emulator on a touch-driven ESP32-S3 board by exploiting its parallel refresh interface.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 9, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for PocketMage: An Open-Source ESP32-S3 E-Paper PDA for Makers
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PocketMage: An Open-Source ESP32-S3 E-Paper PDA for Makers

PocketMage is an open-source ESP32-S3 e-paper PDA with a QWERTY keyboard, dual displays, and hackable firmware. Now live on Crowd Supply from $185.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 8, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for PaperBoy Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 60 FPS on E Ink
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PaperBoy Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 60 FPS on E Ink

PaperBoy drives an ESP32-S3 E Ink devkit at a full 60 FPS, running a Game Boy emulator with a BLE gamepad by bypassing the normal e-paper waveform. It's open source.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 3, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Seeed's $7.99 Wio-S3 Packs ESP32-S3, LoRa, and Wi-Fi in One Module
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Seeed's $7.99 Wio-S3 Packs ESP32-S3, LoRa, and Wi-Fi in One Module

Seeed Studio's Wio-S3 is a $7.99 wireless module pairing an ESP32-S3 with long-range LoRa and Wi-Fi, giving makers cheap dual-radio connectivity for IoT projects.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jun 13, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Anthropic Opens Claude's Bluetooth API — Open-Source Desktop Buddy Turns an ESP32 Into a Real AI Desk Pet
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Anthropic Opens Claude's Bluetooth API — Open-Source Desktop Buddy Turns an ESP32 Into a Real AI Desk Pet

Anthropic open-sourced the Claude Desktop Buddy on May 16, 2026 — a Bluetooth Low Energy reference project that turns a $30 ESP32-S3 board into an interactive hardware companion for the Claude desktop app.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★May 18, 2026★7 min read