Vision
The home mesh you
snap together
Smart home security should not mean shipping every frame and sample to a vendor every day. The pieces below are the capabilities of a house that stays private: cameras, microphones, presence, mesh, and ownership. Like bricks, each one does one job and clicks into the rest. Pick a board, add eyes, ears, or a sense of presence, connect it to the house, and keep the key. Every status on this page is the one the code and the bench report today.
For builders and their agents
Agent-safe by design
Putting hardware into real homes should be something an assistant can help with, without being able to brick a board or leak a Wi-Fi passphrase. The MATA Makers Kit was built for that from the first commit.
Read about the MATA Makers KitEvery verb speaks JSON
The MATA Makers Kit answers boards, check, make find, run, and monitor with --json and stable exit codes, so a script or an agent reads the same truth you do.
MATA Makers Kit
A policy in front of the chip
The agent tools sit behind a deny list written as code: no raw GPIO, no secrets over the wire, and anything irreversible waits for a person.
MATA Makers Kit
Flash
Open the Flash guide →
From a board in a bag to a device on the shelf. The MATA Makers Kit keeps a cited record for every supported board, composes the capabilities you pick into one image, refuses anything that will not fit the flash, writes it, and reads the boot log back to you in plain words. The familiar setup-and-loop shape stays; the risk of opaque vendor firmware does not.
MATA Makers Kit · replaces Arduino IDE + esptool + vendor apps
Board records, compose, fit check, flash, provision, truthful monitor
rusty_esp_arduino · replaces Arduino C++ sketches
setup / loop over the Janus packages, laptop first with HostBoard
See
Open the See guide →
Cameras that answer to the house they watch. Capture runs on boards like the XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense and the ESP32-CAM, and frames leave the chip as MJPEG, RTP, or H.264 you can open on your own laptop. No camera cloud, no subscription for your own porch, no daily upload of who walked past the door.
Look into the water
Many devices. One house.
A camera, a microphone, and a presence sensor are not three apps with three accounts. They are bricks on one baseplate, lit by the same mesh and answering to the same household.
Hear
Open the Hear guide →
Microphones for intercoms, baby monitors, and workshops. Capture, encode, and stream on the LAN so voice stays in the house. Formats you already know how to play on a laptop; no voice-assistant cloud in the middle of a nursery.
Sense
Open the Sense guide →
Knowing a room is occupied without looking into it. Wi-Fi presence, mmWave radar, and radio links capture on the chip and read on the home computer. Built for households that want security awareness without a camera in every corner.
At the edge of morning
Quiet is a feature.
The best home device is the one you forget about: it boots, it joins the mesh, it does its one job, and nothing about your house leaves the yard.
Connect
Open the Connect guide →
Devices that dial each other by key, not by a vendor account. Control and media stay on the home mesh; a bridge fronts the small boards that need help; one shared vocabulary means every sensor in the house agrees on what a frame, a sample, and a manifest are.
Own
Open the Own guide →
A device that answers to you. Each board mints its own identity on first boot into a partition a reflash never touches, the household adopts it with a signature, and updates are accepted only when signed for that exact model. No vendor account stands between you and the thing on your shelf.
In Your Home
Where it all lands: a real house, a few sensors, one afternoon. Start with a single camera or microphone that never phones home, grow into a mesh the household owns, and keep every byte on hardware you can touch. Browser flashing and ready-to-go boards are coming to dldeploy; the guides below work today.
Start with one sensor
A board, a USB cable, and an afternoon. Put a camera or microphone on your LAN that never phones a vendor. Flashing straight from this site and boards that arrive ready to go are next.
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