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EnergySnap

Non-invasive, battery-powered open hardware energy logger: measures your home consumption without touching the wires, logs to microSD and downloads via Bluetooth.

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IOT from ZERO to HERO

An integral part of the Open Hardware Lab open mission: a complete course in book form that explains in detail how to build an IoT project, with a hands-on example and step-by-step explanations of the EnergySnap project โ€” from the schematics to the ESP32 firmware, up to the data-analysis app.

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EnergySnap PC app with consumption charts