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Ayushmaan Bhardwaj's TURN-OFF Is a Minimal, Espressif ESP32-Powered Bike Navigator — Sans GPS

Electrical and electronics engineer Ayushmaan Bhardwaj has turned a compact smart display built around Espressif's ESP32-S3 into a minimalist Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigator for bikes: the TURN-OFF.

"The original thought was pretty simple: 'What if I could make a tiny navigation display for my bicycle instead of mounting my entire phone on the handlebar,'" Bhardwaj explains of the project's origins. "Using a phone while cycling always felt awkward to me. It's bulky, distracting, drains battery quickly, and just makes the whole setup look messy. I wanted something smaller and cleaner that only focused on navigation, almost like a tiny futuristic bike computer. That’s how TURN-OFF started."

Look, mom, no GPS: the TURN-OFF handles turn-by-turn navigation by farming the hard work off to your phone. (📷: Ayushmaan Bhardwaj)

The heart of the TURN-OFF is a Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.69" smart display, which — as the name suggests — includes an...

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The Apple HomeView Is Like a Giant Apple Watch for the Home

It’s a big year for Apple firsts. The company launched the first MacBook Neo, unveiled its first folding iPhone in September, and installed a new CEO for the first time in 15 years. Now comes the Apple HomeView, Apple’s first smart display. Rivals like Google and Amazon have

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Giraffe Bio aims its bespoke biomolecules at the looming copper shortage

Between the AI data center boom and economy-wide electrification, the world will need a lot more copper. By 2040, copper supplies could fall 25% short of demand. That’ll be a tall order for the mining industry, which boosts production mostly by opening new mines, which is a costly, luck-driven

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Kaspersky and KidZania Promote Cyber Safety for Families in Mumbai

Following the successful Media Family Day at KidZania Delhi NCR, Kaspersky’s hands-on cybersecurity role-play for children and parents returns to Mumbai, where the Cyber Investigation Centre first began, because cyber safety is a lesson families learn best together. Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, today hosted a

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'Everything else will go where it is easier to build': Experts warn UK data centre market is lagging behind Europe — even as demand continues to soar

* UK annual data center growth anticipated to be less than half seen in Ireland, Finland and Norway * Nordic sites are costing €600k per MW, Western European sites are costing €2.25m/MW * UK needs to tackle energy prices, land prices and grid connection speeds Consultancy firm Kearney has branded the

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'Everything else will go where it is easier to build': Experts warn UK data centre market is lagging behind Europe — even as demand continues to soar