Story Oh, Hai Hai (‘hi’) is an integration point for several stand alone smart home technologies. Hai runs on the Raspberry Pi and can be adapted to optimize electricity consumption (lighting/HVAC) and water usage (irrigation/rain collection) in a number of ways. Hai was originally envisioned for any Pi running Raspbian OS, but is also being […]
The potential competitor of ESP8266 wifi module will be available next week for just $2! Pine64, the manufacturer of the first $15 64-bit single board computer, is now preparing to launch “PADI IoT Stamp” RTL8710AF module. This module has the size of the stamp, a small 24mm x 16mm package with powerful specifications compared to
For this week I set out to make a board that will show realtime MBTA bus arrival times using the ESP8266 wifi module and a LCD. Seemed doable. People of the internet have been excited about the ESP8266 lately. Here is a snapshot of google trends for searches for esp8266 vs couple of other arduino
The ESP8266 chip, and the boards based around it, have been the new hot new thing this past year. Overnight it became — almost by stealth — one of the leading platforms for the Internet of Things. This runaway success quickly gathered a community, and it’s possible Espressif Systems may repeat that next year with their new ESP32 chip. About a
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Writing Your Server Script Don’t forget that first you need to flash both your ESPs with NodeMCU firmare. Copy and paste the code below into ESPlorer. Summary: The ESP Server acts as an Access Point and it has its own SSID=test and Password=12345678. The server is continuously listening for a connection, when it successfully establishes a connection
Writing Your Lua Script Don’t forget that first you need to flash your ESP with NodeMCU firmare. Copy and paste the code below into ESPlorer. Then edit line 5 with your network credentials and line 13 with your API KEY. — Rui Santos — Complete project details at http://randomnerdtutorials.com wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION) wifi.sta.config(“YOUR_NETWORK_NAME”,”YOUR_NETWORK_PASSWORD”) — A simple http
