Content for ESP8266

Make a WiFi Necklace

“Do you remember the movie “Artificial Intelligence” ? I love that movie and like that future necklace of the robot. I made this future necklace by myself. I think it is also cool for you. Now I can control my necklace …

Oui OUI, Spiffy SPIFFS on ESP8266

“Oui OUI (Yes OUI) on an ESP8266 with the entire Organizationally Unique Identifier database stored in SPIFFS - spiffy, ugh? If you would like to know more about the OUI, check out Wikipedia. This is a proof-of-concept only and other than …

ESP8266 OLED Clock IoT Using AJAX

“This video demonstrates using an ESP8266-12E and an OLED display as a digital clock. While clocks may be ubiquitous these days, this project demonstrates some useful concepts that can be used in a variety of applications. The Arduino IDE …

Illuminate Me

“This application enables the Adafruit Feather Huzzah or any ESP8266 chip to receive messages from an IoT-Hub that will light up a Neopixel ring or jewel when a tweet is made. This project uses a Logic App to watch for …

Testing a Custom IoT Framework by Controlling an LED: RIOT (RealTime Internet of Things)

“RIOT (Realtime Internet of Things) is a free software package (non-commercial) I created that makes using the ESP8266 with microcontrollers very simple. The ESP8266 module is a very brilliant and underestimated Wi-Fi module that can turn any serial port (be …

Vinduino, a wine grower’s water saving project

“If you want to learn about saving water, talk to a farmer. California farmers, including myself, voluntarily aim to reduce agricultural water consumption by 25%. This reduction (25% of 42 million acre feet/year) is more than the annual urban …

Wireless Remote Sensing with Wemos D1 mini, Arduino IDE, Raspberry Pi and lighttpd web server

“For a long time now I’ve wanted wireless temperature sensors scattered around the house and garden reporting their temperatures regularly to a central server. It’s not something I really need, but something nice to have. I’d originally …

CarontePass: Open Access Control for Collaborative Spaces

“Currently we use CarontePass to access Kreitek, our Hackerspace from Tenerife (Spain) This carontepass is an improvement of the previous project (v1) It is difficult to create a makerspace (or other collaborative space) but once you have the tools you …

World’s Smallest IoT Project

“IoT has been trending since long in the field of electronics and communications. Many projects, products are daily made under IoT. Even I made several projects under this topic. But this is the limit of how the IoT project can …

ESP8266 WiFi Garage Door Opener from any Web Browser

“The ‘brain’ is the ESP8266 uC. It is available with on board WiFi and plenty of I/O for smaller projects. All this for well under $10USD with programming options for NodeMCU, MicroPython, and the Arduino IDE. There seems to …