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I recently became obsessed with creating my own IoT devices using ESP8266/ESP32 microcontrollers, ESPHome, and Home Assistant. Most of what I had been playing with had been dev boards with sensors haphazardly soldered to them. Although this had been a lot of fun, I wanted to created something more permanent that would be more useful.…