Li-Fi – 200 Gbps via your room light
https://www.electronics-lab.com/li-fi-200-gbps-via-your-room-light/
Thijs Beckers @ elektormagazine.com has some great news about the Li-Fi technology: The French company Oledcomm displayed its technology at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (22-25 Feb 2016), where a smart phone is connected to the Internet using only an LED lamp, which reaches a connection speed that is a 100 times faster than the […]
OpenGarage – Open-source WiFi garage door opener
https://www.electronics-lab.com/opengarage-an-open-source-wifi-garage-door-opener/
Ray Wang has published a new project called OpenGarage, an open-source garage door opener based on ESP8266 and the Blynk app: Today I am very excited to introduce you to OpenGarage — an open-source, universal garage door opener built using the ESP8266 WiFi chip and the Blynk app. I’ve wanted to finish this project for […]
Multi-Function SSD Shield for the Raspberry Pi 2
https://www.electronics-lab.com/multi-function-ssd-shield-for-the-raspberry-pi-2/
We came across this kickstarter campaign that features a multifunction SSD shield for Raspberry Pi 2. The shield includes SSD, WiFi, RTC w/Battery and high power USB: Pi 2 Design is excited to introduce the first offering in a new line of Embedded and Media-based I/O shields for the popular Raspberry Pi 2. The CSB502SSD Multi-Function […]
Passive Wi-Fi – Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions
https://www.electronics-lab.com/passive-wi-fi-bringing-low-power-to-wi-fi-transmissions/
Bryce Kellogg, Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, Joshua R. Smith have published an research article discussing Passive Wi-Fi transmission that consumes 3 – 4 orders of magnitude lower power than existing Wi-Fi chipsets. Passive Wi-Fi transmissions can be decoded on any Wi-Fi device including routers, mobile phones and tablets. Building on this, we also present a […]
Hardware serial port monitor over WiFi
https://www.electronics-lab.com/hardware-serial-port-monitor-with-wifi/
This tutorial shows how to connect Arduino to the TX line (of a router, RPI) and display serial data on smartphone over WiFi. Arduino listens for serial port communication on its hardware serial port. Then it sends every received line of data trough software serial port to ESP8266. ESP8266 puts every received line of data […]
Wifi Home Thermostat
https://www.electronics-lab.com/web-enabled-home-thermostat/
asheville makers @ instructables.com has posted a Wifi enabled thermostat that can be programmed via a touch screen display or via the internet. This Instructable explains about how I built WiFi enabled thermostats for my home. The thermostats are programmable with 6 different time periods during the day, although increasing that to any arbitrary number would […]
Starling – WiFi enabled LED Display
https://www.electronics-lab.com/starling-wifi-enabled-led-display/
Starling is a modular, Open Source LED display with WiFi connectivity. It comes with a mobile app for easy configuration and usage and has hardware support for Bluetooth. The LED matrix is driven by an Atmega8 microcontroller (MCU), instead of a standard ASIC. This provides a lot of flexibility in the firmware. The firmware detects […]
Wi-Fi and OLED Upgrade for MightyOhm Geiger Counter
https://www.electronics-lab.com/wi-fi-and-oled-upgrade-for-mightyohm-geiger-counter/
Dan Watson @ syncchannel.blogspot.com wanted to have more fun with his MightyOhm Geiger Counter so decided to add an OLED display and Wifi capability to it. To achieve that he modified the counter, added a Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 with OLED FeatherWing and wrote some code. The process is documented on his blog: I assembled my Geiger […]
Wearable WiFi Detector
https://www.electronics-lab.com/wearable-wifi-detector/
A WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) is a technology that uses the 2.4GHz UHF and 5GHz SHF ISM radio bands to allow devices such as computers, smartphones, digital cameras, tablet computers, etc. to network. Nowadays the WiFi technology is being used by cities to provide free or low-cost Internet access to residents. The WiFi is inexpensive and […]
ESP8266 Troubleshooting Guide
https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-troubleshooting-guide/
In this article Rui Santos help us solve the main issues that may arise when trying to flash a new firmware or uploading scripts on ESP8266 Wifi module. He discuss about NodeMCU flasher and how to use it successfully and also he discuss about ESPlorer IDE and it’s use. ESP8266 Troubleshooting Guide – [Link]