Welcome back for the grand finale of our Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series! The Elf surveillance system from Part 4 is running, and I have successfully identified unauthorized movement near the cookie jar. But detection without consequence is just a documentary. I don't want to watch them steal my tools; I want to stop them. Now it's time to bring everything together! In this final part, we will build a complete integrated holiday monitoring system that combines all the technologies we've learned: voice control, LED matrix displays, object detection, and MQTT messaging ‐ all working together in perfect harmony to stop the intruders!
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Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series - Part 5: Integrated Holiday Monitoring System with MQTT
Posted on Dec 12, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
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Posted on Dec 11, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
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Welcome back to our Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series! In Part 3, we deployed a virtual tree that changed colors using audio classification. But it isn't enough to get by virtual stand-ins. I’m done with disappearing ornaments and cutting cables. Passive defense is over. It is time to go on the offensive. I need proof. I need a mugshot. I need to catch these little saboteurs on camera. Now that we understand Edge AI for audio, it’s time to escalate to computer vision.
Posted on Dec 10, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
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Welcome back to our Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series! Last night, my worst fear came true ‐ I pulled out the Christmas decorations, and half the ornaments were gone . Vanished !
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Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series - Part 2: LED Matrix
Posted on Dec 9, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
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In Part 1 of this Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series, we mastered the simple dual-core architecture by blinking a single LED.
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Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series - Part 1: Blinking an LED
Posted on Dec 8, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
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Welcome back to the Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series. I’m happy to report that the Arduino UNO Q survived the first night !
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Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series - Part 0: Introduction
Posted on Dec 5, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
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Arduino UNO Q Elf Detector Series - Part 0: Introduction The holiday season is here, and like any good engineer, this means pre-gifting myself a project!
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Orchestrating Multiple Containers on Embedded Hardware
Posted on Nov 26, 2025 by Brendan Wood
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A container enables an application to be packaged and isolated with its runtime environment.
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Creating SBOMs for Embedded Linux Devices
Posted on Nov 5, 2025 by Raul Muñoz
11 min read
The 1960s was the decade in which the car industry, first in the US and eventually across the whole world, found itself at the center of concerns about safety and the high numbers of deaths and injuries caused by collisions on the road
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A Developer’s Guide to Containerizing Embedded Applications
Posted on Sep 30, 2025 by Andy Doan
14 min read
The practice of containerization developed first in server-side and enterprise computing environments, providing a way to isolate applications in highly complex systems, and allow flexible, fast modification or updating without disrupting the entire system.
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Good practices in IoT device security: taking advantage of the lessons that others have learned the hard way
Posted on Sep 2, 2025 by Caio Pereira
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Doesn’t it make sense to learn from the security mistakes that others have made, and avoid the pain which they had to go through in putting their mistake right?