Tag: ESP8266
WiFi Weather display using a Wemos D1 board and operweathermap.org website
educ8s.tv published a new project, a ESP8266 Wifi weather display. In this video we are going to build a WiFi Weather display with the impressive Wemos D1 board. The board uses the ESP8266 chip in order to connect to the internet and we are going to program it using the Arduino IDE....
Continue ReadingESP8266: SSD1306 Oled Library Release
Daniel Eichhorn writes: The “ESP8266 OLED SSD1306″ is an open source library which allows you to control those pretty OLED modules from our beloved ESP8266 module. Fabrice Weinberg cleaned up all the ugly pieces of code which I initially wrote caused by my near C/C++ illiteracy. He...
Continue ReadingBuild a Cloud-Connected ESP8266 Power Meter
Measure the DC power consumption of your devices on the cloud @ adafruit.com Controlling the electrical consumption in your home is one of the most important thing you can do, both because of environmental concerns & to reduce the electricity bill at the end of the month. There...
Continue ReadingESP8266 Desktop Clock – WiFi Synchronised
This project is a wifi synchronised desktop clock using 7-segment displays. The heart of the project is a ESP8266 board. The ESP8266 is a awesome chip; with integrated WiFi, 80MHz clock speed, total 160kb RAM, 512kb of flash memory, and a ton of other features, it makes a regular...
Continue ReadingWeMOS D1 ESP8266 vs Arduino Uno, Arduino Due and Teensy 3.2. Which one is the fastest board?
educ8s.tv uploaded a new video comparing the performance of ESP8266 Arduino board with the most popular Arduino boards. In this video we are going to compare the computational speed of the WeMOS D1 ESP8266 based Arduino compatible board with the computational speed of the most...
Continue ReadingControl an electrical appliance with your smartphone – WiFi
Ruben Marc Speybrouck show us how to control a device using your tablet or smartphone. To achieve that he used arduino, blynk and a wemos / ESP8266 board. In this tutorial we will be making something I call a wifi controlled ac switch. (But iy also works for DC applications that are...
Continue ReadingESP8266 Wifi controlled Home Automation
geekrex @ instructables.com shows us how to use ESP8266 Wifi module for home automation. He writes: ESP8266 is a great thing for starting to Wifi And IOT. It is also cheap and be used for making cool projects connected to the Internet .Learn how to make a simple IOT Project with it...
Continue ReadingDoor Status Monitor using the ESP8266
Rui Santos tipped us with this tutorial on how to monitor the status of your door using an ESP8266. In this project you’re going to monitor the status of a door using an ESP8266. The goal of this project is to show the endless possibilities that this $4 WiFi module offers when...
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