If your interest has been piqued by the inexpensive wireless-enabled goodness of the ESP8266 microcontroller, but you have been intimidated by the slightly Wild-West nature of the ecosystem that ...

ESP8266 is a wifi SOC (system on a chip) produced by Espressif Systems. It is an highly integrated chip designed to provide full internet connectivity in a small package. What is it good for? ESP8266 ...

With progress slowly being made on turning the ESP8266 UART to WiFi module into something great, there is still the question of what the range is for the radio in this tiny IoT wonder. [CNLohr] has ...

Python is one of the most widely used, and easy to learn programming languages to date. So, with the introduction of MicroPython, programming hardware-based microcontrollers got very easy. If you have ...

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Imagine turning your old, “dumb” appliances into intelligent, Wi-Fi-enabled devices that respond to your voice, phone, or automation rules. Sounds futuristic, right? With the ESP8266 microcontroller, ...

About 20 years ago I recycled and modernized a very old nixie clock built by my father in the 70's, with an 87C51 and a DCF77 module which replaced digital ICs and 50Hz derived timebase. About 20 ...

Relays are common in many switching circuits where controlling (turning ON or OFF) an AC load is required. But due to the electromechanical characteristic, a mechanical relay has a self-life, and also ...