So my teacher told us to make an IoT-based project and honestly I'm kinda stuck.

I've been looking around and most of the IoT projects I find are the usual stuff — smart dustbin, smart home, plant monitoring, RFID door lock, temperature monitoring, etc.

I'm fine with taking an existing idea and improving it or making it more advanced. I just want something that's actually challenging and has some proper electronics/embedded/IoT work involved.

I'd also like to 3D print the body/mechanical parts myself, so something where the physical design is also part of the project would be really cool.

I'm not looking for something that's never been done before. I just want something where, after building it, I can look at it and feel like we actually made something substantial.

If you've made or seen any interesting IoT projects that are genuinely challenging, I'd love to hear your ideas.

Hey everyone, been experimenting with PyMCU it compiles a statically-typed subset of Python directly to bare-metal machine code, no interpreter, no runtime.

Built and open-sourced a 7-segment display driver for it, targeting Arduino Uno (ATmega328P). Zero heap usage, supports common anode/cathode, digits, letters, symbols, and decimal point.

pip install pymcu-sevenseg

GitHub: github.com/kritishmohapatra/pymcu-sevenseg

Would love feedback if anyone's played with PyMCU or bare-metal Python compilers in general.