When we first heard about it a few weeks ago, we knew the ESP8266 UART to WiFi module was a special beast. It was cheap, gave every microcontroller the ability to connect to a WiFi network, and cou… ...

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If you take a deep look at the D1 Wi-Fi board, you will see that it is different from the claimed to be new version WeMos D1 R2. That is because the latter (D1 R2) has a ESP8266-12F (Not 12E) Wi-Fi ...

At its core, it is just an ESP8266, a cheap simple Wi-Fi chip that is in tons of tech. If you have Wi-Fi light bulbs, you probably have several of these chips in your home right now.