Build a Cloud-Connected ESP8266 Power Meter
https://www.electronics-lab.com/build-cloud-connected-esp8266-power-meter/
Measure the DC power consumption of your devices on the cloud @ adafruit.com Controlling the electrical consumption in your home is one of the most important thing you can do, both because of environmental concerns & to reduce the electricity bill at the end of the month. There are countless of electrical power meters out […]
ESP8266 Desktop Clock – WiFi Synchronised
https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-desktop-clock-wifi-synchronised/
This project is a wifi synchronised desktop clock using 7-segment displays. The heart of the project is a ESP8266 board. The ESP8266 is a awesome chip; with integrated WiFi, 80MHz clock speed, total 160kb RAM, 512kb of flash memory, and a ton of other features, it makes a regular Arduino look like a joke. The […]
WeMOS D1 ESP8266 vs Arduino Uno, Arduino Due and Teensy 3.2. Which one is the fastest board?
https://www.electronics-lab.com/wemos-d1-esp8266-vs-arduino-uno-arduino-due-teensy-3-2-one-fastest-board/
educ8s.tv uploaded a new video comparing the performance of ESP8266 Arduino board with the most popular Arduino boards. In this video we are going to compare the computational speed of the WeMOS D1 ESP8266 based Arduino compatible board with the computational speed of the most popular Arduino boards and the Teensy 3.2. Let’s get started! […]
Control an electrical appliance with your smartphone – WiFi
https://www.electronics-lab.com/control-electrical-appliance-smartphone-wifi/
Ruben Marc Speybrouck show us how to control a device using your tablet or smartphone. To achieve that he used arduino, blynk and a wemos / ESP8266 board. In this tutorial we will be making something I call a wifi controlled ac switch. (But iy also works for DC applications that are powered by a […]
ESP8266 Wifi controlled Home Automation
https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-wifi-controlled-home-automation/
geekrex @ instructables.com shows us how to use ESP8266 Wifi module for home automation. He writes: ESP8266 is a great thing for starting to Wifi And IOT. It is also cheap and be used for making cool projects connected to the Internet .Learn how to make a simple IOT Project with it ESP8266 WLAN Module could be […]
Door Status Monitor using the ESP8266
https://www.electronics-lab.com/door-status-monitor-using-esp8266/
Rui Santos tipped us with this tutorial on how to monitor the status of your door using an ESP8266. In this project you’re going to monitor the status of a door using an ESP8266. The goal of this project is to show the endless possibilities that this $4 WiFi module offers when integrates with a […]
WeMOS D1 ESP8266 Over the Air (OTA) update
https://www.electronics-lab.com/wemos-d1-esp8266-air-ota-update/
In this video educ8s.tv is going to show us how to wirelessly update the code of our Arduino project, using the WeMOS D1 ESP8266 based board. This is an impressive, and very useful feature. A few weeks ago, we took a first look at the very promising new board, the WeMos D1. You can watch […]
Raspberry Pi Wifi module without USB
https://www.electronics-lab.com/raspberry-pi-wifi-module-without-usb/
This board will let you add WiFi functionality to your Raspberry Pi Zero without having to sacrifice the only available high speed USB port. The board is based on ESP8266 Wifi module. WiFi on a Raspberry Pi using the HAT connector and an ESP8266. The goal of this project is to add WiFi to the […]
ESP8266 controlled with Android app (MIT App Inventor)
https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-controlled-android-app-mit-app-inventor/
Rui Santos from Random Nerd Tutorials tipped us with his latest tutorial on how to build an Android app using the MIT App Inventor software that allows you to control the ESP8266 GPIOs: ESP8266 controlled with Android app (MIT App Inventor) – [Link]
Control ESP8266 over the internet
https://www.electronics-lab.com/control-esp8266-internet/
Here is a basic tutorial on how to control ESP8266 over the internet using two buttons on a browser window. The article goes through Arduino IDE configuration and example code is included. There are but a few things better than (succesfully) programming and using your Arduino. Surely one of those things is using your ESP8266 […]