Category Archives: ESP8266


ESP8266 Weather widget

Debasish Dutta‘s Weather Widget uses ESP8266 to retrieve local weather information from web and displays it on a 128×64 OLED Display. The device is capable to display current date, time, and weather information as well as future forecasting for 3 days. The real-time weather data are fetched from the Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com) website using an API Key.

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IoT temperature monitoring device

This temperature monitor IoT device uses ESP8266 and DS18B20 to report a remote temperature measurement to a mobile app and also sends an email to the user if the temperature goes below a set threshold. To complete this project you will have to create three things Hardware – Basically you have to hook up the temperature sensor to the ESP8266 board and upload the Arduino code. Cloud device – Create the logic that drives the decision making using the IC2Cloud platform www.ic2cloud.com Mobile App – Create the mobile App using AppInventor to monitor and control your temperature appinventor.mit.edu This project can

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ESP8266 controls an AC outlet for lamp

Gary shares his ESP8266 controlled on/off switch for a lamp. The first step is to find a case to house the parts in. I had an old TP-link router case that I used. It already had a two prong spring out 110v connections but any box will work. When planning your boxes figure out how your going to get the AC in and out of the box. A stop at your local bigbox hardware store should give you lots of idea. At a minimum a deepwall outlet/switch box will work but use your imagination. My project only uses 2 wire

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IOT enabled AC wall outlet

Gopinath.Marappan has posted great instructions about how he built an IoT enabled AC wall outlet using Arduino and ESP8266 platforms, along with a bunch of sensors, relays, and LCD displays. It features light and fan On/Off control, fan speed regulator, mood lighting, and cloud datalogger. It also allows IR remote control, amartphone app control, twitter and SMS alerts, and many more features. This project was conceived when I felt the need to automatically reduce the speed of an AC ceiling fan in the bedroom as temperature drops through the night. In Bangalore, where I live, during winters, I like to

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IoT enabled soldering iron

Vegard’s hacked his soldering iron and made it IoT enabled using NodeMCU, which is a ESP8266-based development platform. Now Vegard’s soldering station reports its set temperature to the Thingspeak server over WIFI. It also sends me Prowl messages on my Iphone when I forget to turn it off. It all started when I needed to fix the display on the Soldering-iron itself after some guys at the soldering-iron factory forgot to mount the segment display properly. The road to IoT is anything but streamlined yet. The NodeMCU & Arduino IDE integration is in it early stages and the tutorials out

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