Juan has been working on a Souliss device ESP based project, that is available at Github: With this board we can control 3 monocolor led strips (or 1 RGB), can host multiple sensors and options to come by external modules or internal conectors, Im working on this modules now. For now this board can host a […]
Tag Archives: ESP8266
ESP8266 weather station
Dani Eichhorn’s weather station project, that is available at Github: Several ESP8266 hackers contacted me to finally publish the new WeatherStation code. Here it is. It is not yet working as smoothly as I want it to work but maybe some of you can help me getting rid of the nasty issues that were bugging me for […]
ESP8266 MQTT client on RTOS
Baoshi wrote a MQTT client for Espressif’s RTOS SDK: If you search MQTT and ESP8266 on the intraweb, most likely all hits can be traced back to the great work done by TuanPM. However Tuan’s code is based on Espressif’s NON-OS SDK. There has been some great debates about embedded programming with-or-without an OS. To […]
A connected lamp to wake me up
Limpkin writes, “I’ve always wanted to play with these 10W RGB LEDs! So for some reason I bought 2 IKEA lamps at a flea market. As IKEA furniture has a long history of being hacker-friendly, I figured they shouldn’t be an exception to the rule. My plan? Fit a few 10W RGB LEDs in there […]
nodeLHC – ESP8266 development board
Pedro Minatel shared us his ESP8266 development board project – nodeLHC: This board was developed at the Campinas Hacker Lab in Brazil during our weekly IoT meetings. This layout and schematic was developed by Leandro Pereira. The idea was to develop a easy to use board and to learn how to use this magnificent WiFi module. We […]
ESP8266 LED display
Evan writes: This is my proof-of-concept for using mqtt with the esp8266. I saw this LED display sitting around and I couldn’t imagine why no one was using it, the answer was no one knew how to talk to it. Easy, I think. Looking at the board it’s just an 8031, a serial level shifter, […]
ESP8266 remote controlled sockets
Rui Santos made a new project, an ESP8266 remote controlled sockets: In this project your’re going to build a web server with an ESP8266 that can control remotely any sockets (safely!). Project info at Rui’s Random Nerd Tutorials site. Check out the video after the break.
AC energy metering board using an Atmel 90E24 energy metering chip
Steve Rodgers writes, “Here’s my latest project. Its an AC energy metering board using an Atmel 90E24 energy metering chip. The board can either take an ESP8266-12 and run a native C application, or the ESP8266-12 can be omitted, and an external microcontroller can be used to talk to the Atmel 90E24 energy metering chip. […]
How to make two ESP8266 talk
Here’s a detailed tutorial on how to make two ESP8266 talk with each other from Rui Santos: How it works? You’re going to set one ESP as an Access Point (Server) and another ESP as a Station (Client). Then they’ll establish a wireless communication and the Client sends a message to the Server saying “Hello World!”. Project […]
Soldering iron + Nodemcu = IoT device
Vegard Paulsen blogged about his soldering-iron #IoT project: My trusty old soldering-iron recently got an upgrade! With the help of a NodeMCU. a RGB-LED it now reports the set temperature to the #IoT Thingspeak.com server through WIFI. It also sends me Prowl messages on my Iphone when I forget to turn it off. It all […]
How to control your ESP8266 from anywhere in the world
Rui Santos shared a tutorial on how to control your ESP8266 from anywhere in the world: The most common questions I get about the ESP8266 WiFi Modules are: “Is it possible to control my ESP8266 from anywhere in the world?” and “How can I control my ESP8266 from anywhere?”. I’m happy to announce today that […]
ESP8266 firmware flashing with a Bus Pirate
Jonathan Endersby writes, “Flashing the firmware on an ESP8266 is apparently not so straight forward. This is the process I used to get it to work reliably.” Via Hackaday.io Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
MQTT/JQUERY/WebSockets controller
Peter Scargill writes: I wrote a while ago about using web sockets as against something like NETIO for controlling the home – most folk liked the article but I think part of it was a little complicated – and at the time I’d not really thought it out to make it as simple as possible. […]
ESP8266 Arduino NetIO Server demo
Peter Scargill writes: This week as regular readers know I was far away from our little home in Spain – in fact I was at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston, helping promote ESP8266 technology (why? because I could). Along the way I met up with Ivan Grokhotkov who as some of you know […]
ESP8266 MQTT battery monitor project
Steve’s latest DirtyPCBs project, a wireless MQTT battery monitor: This board uses an ESP8266 (ESP12), a Texas Instruments INA226 I2C voltage and current monitor, and a Texas Instruments LMR12010X buck converter. This board is designed to wirelessly monitor 12 volt batteries and power supplies using an external current shunt resistor. The voltage across the shunt […]
WIFI Mains Power Dimmer / Switch with CBDBv2
MAINS Power Dimmer / Switch Module project by Tracker J: Now it’s about time to talk also about what many of you has asked for: DIMMING! It’s a total different story, little bit complicated but, as you will see, not so hard to understand. General considerations: There are several types of dimmers generally available. These […]
Comparing Microcontroller + Wifi Breakout boards
Mike Barela writes, “A new post comparing WiFi / Microcontroller combo breakouts for Makers and the Internet of Things #ESP8266” More details at Mike’s 21stdigitalhome blog.
ESP8266 + DS18B20 Temperature sensor sends data to Thingspeak.com
Mohamed Afzal has written an article detailing how to send data to Thingspeak.com with ESP8266 + DS18B20 temperature sensor: The stock Firmware in the ESP8266 supports AT commands and for communicating with this need an micro-controller like Arduino. But i want to make a simple solution for that without using external micro-controller. NodeMCU firmware was the best thing […]
ESP8266 WiFi touch screen thermostat
An instructables on how to build WiFi touch screen thermostat by EasyIoT: In this tutorial we will show how to build WiFi controlled thermostat with ESP8266, Arduino and touch screen display. Thermostat will also show other info, like weather forecast and temperature outside. Total cost for thermostat is about 40EUR, which is price for basic commercial thermostat […]
ESP8266 Breadboard adapter
Baoshi of DigitalMe wrote an article detailing his ESP8266 (ESP-07/12) Full I/O Breadboard adapter, that is available at Github: The rise of the ESP8266 WiFi chip was almost overnight with Espressif’s open approach and pushing from Hackaday. While no ground-breaking product has yet emerged, the development on the chip are phenomenon. However due to an unknown reason the […]