Content for ESP8266

Web-based Garage Controller

_”Internet based garage controller with auto-close. Interact via web interface to see status, toggle, change auto-close time, and last action. Toggle your home’s garage door through the internet really has no practical value since we all have remotes …

ESP8266 based NTP Clock

“A little over a year ago, the ESP8266 WiFi SoC started getting attention and quickly became a little chip of wonder. On a fully self-contained breakout board with this chip, a complete WiFi enabled controller is well under $5! It …

esp8266 Configurable Power Management

“Since the start of getting going with esp8266 boards in late 2015 I’ve had in the back of my mind the idea of how nice it would be to develop a little device that is free of all ties …

Home Control 2016

“Sick of reading about other people’s home control? Want to make your own? Got some electronics and software experience? You’re going to LOVE THIS! Rock-solid home control – low cost, DIY. If you’ve read my early blogs you …

ESP8266 USB Software Driver

“I wanted to have USB on the ESP8266, and a while ago I saw on the ESP32 flier, it read: “Rich Peripherals” … “Sorry, no USB!” I thought to myself, that is ridiculous. Of course there’s USB. So, it was …

RFM69 WIFI Gateway

“Some 3 years ago I started building my own wireless sensor network at home. The technology I used at the moment has proven to be the right choice, mostly because it is flexible and modular. MQTT is the keystone of …

Temperature Sensing and Monitoring Using Arduino and Esp8266

“This instructable is based on the concept of IoT. This project is going to give the real time temperature of any place. I used the Arduino Uno, lm35 temperature sensor and esp8266 wifi module. Then I am going to send …

Twitter Mood Lamps with ESP8266

“One day I was browsing through Thingverse and came across these awesome looking lamps made by Markellov.I decided I wanted to make something out of them and settled on a Twitter Mood Lamp. The idea was to parse tweets …

WiFi Plant Watering ESP8266

“So I was always forgetting to water my plants, and as a result they would get dry and sometimes even die. So I though it would be cool to be able to water my plants with my phone. Its connected …

ESP12e oled “smartwatch”, honestly it’s a wrist display ;)

“Recently I bought two ESP12e, wanted to see how those IoT things work. One thing I know for sure, they don’t tolerate 12V 1A ;) yep fired one by accident … I left with one working, trying to figure out what …