Tag: ESP8266

Jimb0 @ sparkfun.com takes a first look on the new ESP32 WiFi board by Espressif that's an improvement of the ESP8266 board. The ESP32 doesn’t replace the ESP8266, but it does improve on it in every aspect. Not only does it have WiFi support, but it also features a Bluetooth 4.2...

Brian Dorey has designed a mains energy monitor based on ESP8266 that have sensors for the mains current, electric meter and gas meter. As the new solar logger did not have this functionality we decided to design a new data-logger that would measure not only the mains current usage...

Subhan95 @ instructables.com has written a tutorial on how to use ESP8266 with Arduino and tweet using it. What can the ESP8266 do?It is limited by your imagination.I have seen projects and tutorials on the internet showing how to fetch a city's temperature, stock prices,sending and...

Markus Hirsch is working on a ESP8266 weather display using an AVR mcu and an OLED display: This is a little weather monitor. It has a 2.2" color display and is powered by an AVR and the ESP8266. The AVR controles the display. The ESP has a custom firmware written in the Arduino IDE...

John Whittington decided to build a Nixie tube energy meter to measure his house power consumption.  An Arduino would be the microcontroller but I wanted the meter to provide some form of data stream for a web based energy history. To make it an IoT, I a paired ESP8266 with it. I...

TheTwim @ instructables.com show us how to make a cheap ESP8266 Arduino Shield This is just the first step to make a cheap Arduino WiFi shield using the ESP8266 module. With few more electronic components and the WiFiEsp library you can build it for less that 10 USD. Cheap Arduino...

deba168 @ instructables.com has build an ESP8266 based OLED display weather widget. This is an ESP8266 based Weather Display unit which retrieve localized weather information from http://www.wunderground.com/ by WLAN and display it on a 128x64 OLED Display. ESP8266 Weather Widget -...

Alasdair Allan @ makezine.com discuss about a new IoT board released from the company that makes the ESP8266. The ESP8266 chip, and the boards based around it, have been the new hot new thing this past year. Overnight it became — almost by stealth — one of the leading platforms...