Content for ESP-01

Arduino Indoor Garden

“Gardening in the modern age means making things more complicated and arduous, with electrons, bits, and bytes. Combining microcontrollers and gardening is a really popular idea. I think that’s because gardens have very simple inputs and outputs that are …

ESP8266/ESP-01 Arduino Powered SmartThings Leak Detector

“Sooooo Many leak detectors to choose from, which one will work best for you? If you have Samsung SmartThings controlling any devices in your home, then this one might just be the ticket! This is the final version in a …

IoT Made Easy With UNO, ESP-01, ThingSpeak and MIT App Inventor

“This Instructable is competing on contests: “Remote Control”, and “Arduino”, If you like it, please give your vote by clicking at the above banner. Thanks a lot! ;-)The great majority of my work on IoT arena was using NodeMCU and …

ESP8266/ESP-01 Arduino Powered MQTT Leak Detector & Remote Alarm Receiver

“NO ONE enjoys water/liquid of any kind leaking into places that it just doesn’t belong. The worst part of that scenario is that it tends to happen where you currently ‘happen not to be’…your basement, a utility …

ESP8266/ESP-01 Arduino Powered Leak Detector

“Water is GREAT Stuff right? Not so much when it’s forced to leave it’s designated home and starts swimming around your home’s floor space instead. I know this is an ‘after-the-fact’ project, but I hope it can …

LED Control Using ESP8266 WiFi Module- Internet of Things

“The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and MCU (microcontroller unit) capability produced by the Shanghai-based Chinese manufacturer, Espressif Systems. The chip first came to the attention of western makers in August 2014 with the …

Your HotSpot is a presence detector

“I never connect my devices to “free wifi” hotspots. I’ve seen what a (bad) hacker can do, using one laptop, a battery powered Raspberry PI board and a collection of software tools. He can spy (almost) any smartphone that …

Set Up an ESP8266 Automatic Update Server

“Many people are now using the ESP8266 in its many guises (ESP-01S, Wemos D1, NodeMCU, Sonoff etc) for home automation systems. If you write your own code (as I do) updating each of these separately even via OTA (over …

Web-based universal remote under $4, probably

“Don’t buy a universal remote, make one. It’s cheaper, funner, universal-er, kind of, and you get to learn the ESP8266, kind of. If you have a hungry toddler like I do, you might also be missing some of …

Over the Air (OTA) Update of NodeMCU (ESP8266) Using MQTT

“In this project I’m going to tell you about how to use Over-the-Air (OTA) software update for NodeMCU (ESP8266). In this project I’m going to tell you about how to use Over-the-Air (OTA) software update for NodeMCU (ESP8266 …