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Electronics
The End of MicroSD: Why 2026 Is the Year of NVMe SSDs in the Homelab
MicroSD cards fail quickly under continuous operation with Home Assistant due to constant database write accesses. The Raspberry …
The Triumph of RISC-V: Why the ESP32 Is Changing Its Architecture
Espressif is switching to RISC-V instead of Xtensa for all new ESP32 chips. What the architecture change means, …
Xiaomi Vacuum Robot Gen 1 Repair (LIDAR Error 1)
The Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum Gen 1 reports Error 1 when the LIDAR motor or its drive belt …