I'm an ECE Student Who Vibe Codes Hardware Projects — Here's What Google I/O 2026 Actually Changed for Me (opens in new tab)

Submitted as part of the Most Google I/O recaps look the same: benchmark tables, pricing comparisons, model spec sheets. This one won't. I'm an Electronics & Communication Engineering student and the person behind BlinkNBuild, a YouTube channel where I build ESP32, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi projects. I also vibe code a lot: browser-based OLED pixel editors, circuit diagram tools, IoT dashboards — all shipped from a single HTML file to Netlify on zero budget. When I watched the Google I/O 2026...