I replaced my $60 Raspberry Pi with a $5 ESP32 and my smart home never noticed

An author details successfully replacing a $60 Raspberry Pi, a full single-board computer, with a $5 ESP32 microcontroller for reading sensors in a home automation system. The much cheaper and more power-efficient component handled the task without any degradation in performance.

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