More than a dozen vulnerabilities, collectively named Ripple20, affecting the TCP/IP communication stack used in hundreds of millions of embedded devices paint a grim scenario for connected gadgets.

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 an ...

We’ve been tuned into coin cell designs lately given the coin cell challenge, so we were interested in [CNLohr]’s latest video about pushing the ESP8266 into the lowest-possible battery drain with ...