Content for ESP8266

Making a Makerspace Temperature Logger

“First, use the Makerspace PCB milling machine to cut a circuit board. This was the first attempt to cut a board that uses surface mount components. Really the surface mount components are on the wrong side of the board because …

Wireless Solar Charge Controller Monitor ( RS485 to WiFi )

“I’ve two solar charge controllers from EPsolar or EPever as they are sometimes known. They are great and have a COM port for monitoring the performance of the panels and state of the battery etc but it’s a …

Breakout Board for ESP 8266 01

“ESP8266-01 is a great tiny little board. I’ll start by talking about my motivation for making this breakout board for the ESP 01. It’s simple, actually: I was looking at making a simple solution for flashing my …

DIY pseudo-BGA

“Man, I hate drilling holes in PCBs. I make my boards with a mill, so it shouldnt be too hard to swap the V-cutting bit for a drill bit, but I Just. Cant. Be. Arsed. And besides, I like making …

Build an ESP8266 Mobile Robot

“Building your own mobile robot is becoming easier and easier, thanks to excellent ready-to-use robotic platforms. A good example of such platform is the Adafruit Mini Robot Chassis kit, which comes with a nice robot chassis, two servo motors with …

How to build a ESP8266 Web Server

“This tutorial is going to teach you some basics on using ESP8266 to build a simple server which can control the LED and display the sensor data when detect the flame occurs.”

I2C Continuum

“I say that this article is now NOT ONLY about an I2c LCD display facility just added to the ESP8266 boards but theres a PARALLEL version as well, making use of GPIO 4,5,12,13,15 and 16. Comments …

Project  Mumai

Mumai

_”Use the power of your muscles to interact with the world Mumai is an open-source muscle-machine interface that connects your body to any kind of electronic or mechanic device through the myoelectric (EMG) signals generated by your muscles. The …

WiFi BrewPi Fermentation Temperature Controller With ESP8266

“As I started to get further into brewing I realized I needed a way to better control fermentation temperatures and quickly stumbled across the BrewPi project. It’s a fairly ingenious combination of a Raspberry Pi and a microcontroller which …

Dual axis solar tracker with online energy monitor

“The features of this solar tracker are: Solar tracking: making sure the solar panels are aligned to the sun as long as possible. Energy monitor: This measures the voltage and the current generated by the panels and calculates the generated …