Tag: ESP8266
Make Your Regular Appliances Smart with Automate Things’ IR Bridge
Automate Things, a company based in the UK has released a new cool gadget called IR Bridge which is a small cheap Wemos D1 mini-powered device that lets you can control infrared devices (like your TV or air conditioner) with your home automation system, specifically the ones that work...
Continue ReadingDemonstrating Automate Safe Cracking with an ESP8266 and a Stepper Motor
To recover a lost combination, we may see how YouTuber Zach Hipps designed and built a completely automated safe-breaking robot. Zach Hipps, who runs the YouTube channel Byte Sized Engineering, has a brother-in-law who put his safe's combination code inside the safe just before going on...
Continue ReadingPiSquare Introduction – an RP2040 & ESP-12E based board
Onboard-RP2040 | USB-C Type Port | Multiple HAT Connectivity | ESP8266 | 0.91 OLED | 40-Pins GPIO Connectivity | 16 Mega-Byte Flash There are several ways where you can find PiSquare very useful, as we were bound to use a single HAT on Raspberry Pi or max to max 5 Raspberry Pi HATs...
Continue ReadingMeet ESP32-C3 Board on top of a Rechargeable 16340 Battery
What can be better than ESP8266 and ESP32? Maybe a battery-powered ESP32-C3 board designed to provide lower power consumption. LILYGO® has just launched an ESP32-C3 board with a rechargeable 16340 battery holder. The new board, aptly named LILYGO TTGO T-OI PLUS consumes lesser...
Continue ReadingBuild Smart Home Solutions in 10mins using ITEADs PSF-B Series 1-4 Gang Ultra Low Power ESP8285 Wi-Fi Switch Module
There is absolutely no end to the number of different types of modules and devices in which the ESP family of WiFi modules/microcontrollers have been featured, thanks to their integrated nature and small form factor. While the ESP8266 and ESP32 variants are the most known, other...
Continue ReadingArduino announced that the Arduino Cloud now supports ESP32 Devices
Arduino boards are highly manageable. They are equipped with various sets of digital and analog I/O pins that allow the user to interface with a variety of shields, modules, breadboard circuits, and other circuits. Arduino boards are the brains of many IoT-based projects. For IoT...
Continue ReadingSATRAN: A Wifi-controlled satellite antenna tracking system
An antenna tracking system adjusts the axis of an antenna to follow a moving signal source like a communication satellite. The working of an antenna tracking system is quite simple; the antenna is, first of all, commanded to move in any direction. Then, the level of the received signal...
Continue ReadingEspressif Leaks RISC-V Powered ESP8266 Pin-Compatible ESP32-C3
The ESP32-C3 is a WiFi SoC that contains a RISC-V core in place of the Tensilica core in the ESP32 we are all familiar with. It uses the ESP8266 pin-out. As with other ESP32 family members, this one delivers b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth LE 5, where it differs is the RISC-V 32 Single-core...
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