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.

It’s no secret that we love the ESP8266 chip, and the community of hackers that have contributed to making it useful. We often joke about this or that new WiFi-enabler being an ESP8266 killer… ...

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.

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.