The ESP8266 is a chip that turned a lot of heads recently, stuffing a WiFi radio, TCP/IP stack, and all the required bits to get a microcontroller on the Internet into a tiny, $5 module.

So you design in an external ADC chip and connect it via I2C, or you tack on a shift register and drive it with the blindingly fast I2S peripheral — something you can’t do with the ESP8266.

Like all ESP8266 development boards, you can also get it to run other software if that is your thing. It should be worth noting, however, that the ESP8266 chip only works on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, so the ...

Damien George has created a new programming language with standard API to make creating Internet Of Things projects more enjoyable and easier when using the ESP8266 WiFi chip.

At the heart of the ESP-01 module is the ESP8266 chip with at least two boot modes — the normal mode and the programming/flash mode. The latter refers to uploading any software (or firmware) to the ...

Project Overview “This project describes how to connect a MAX7219 to an ESP8266 Chip and let it act as a MQTT client. It’s based on my ninHOME Node Project where you can optionally add a ...

In principle, the Sonoff Basic is a single-relay unit to be used as retrofit, based on the ESP8266 chip, a very popular and inexpensive Wi-Fi solution. However, in yesteryear, ITEAD changed the layout ...

The ESP8266 chip includes a 32-bit RISC microprocessor core running at 80 or 160 MHz, 80 KiB of user-data RAM, and support for several expansion interfaces, such as 17 GPIO pins, SPI, and UART.