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ESP8266 module and breadboard adapter kit

Posted on January 8, 2015 by R-B 2 comments

Elecrow is now offering the popular ESP-01 Serial-to-WiFi transceiver module along with our breadboard adapter kit for simplifying the prototyping of the ESP8266-based IoT applications. While you can buy the breadboard kit alone from our Tindie Store, we don’t ship it worldwide. Elecrow offers worldwide shipping at reasonably lower shipping costs. ESP8266 is an inexpensive serial-to-wifi tranceiver chip that allows to connect any microcontroller with a serial port to a WiFi network. Because of its simplicity and low cost, it is getting popular among hobbyists for building Internet of Things (IoT) applications. While there are varieties of breakout boards available

Breadboard adapter for ESP8266 module

Posted on December 20, 2014 by R-B 7 comments

ESP8266 is an inexpensive serial-to-wifi tranceiver chip that allows to connect any microcontroller with a serial port to a WiFi network. Because of its simplicity and low cost, it is getting popular among hobbyists for building Internet of Things (IoT) applications. While there are varieties of breakout boards available for ESP8266 from the Chinese markets, the most popular one is the ESP-01 version that provides access to the ESP8266 pins through a 2×4 male header. While the headers are 0.1″ pitch, the pin arrangements are not breadboard friendly and are not labeled on board, which makes it little inconvenient for

A simple IoT demo using ESP8266 and Arduino

Posted on December 2, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

ESP8266 is a highly integrated serial-to-wifi tranceiver chip that can be used to connect any microcontroller with a serial port to a WiFi network for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The best part of it is that the breakout board for this chip costs only $3 on Ebay, and the chip itself can be programmed/customized for a complete IoT solution. This instructable describes a simple demo of using the ESP8266 and Arduino to send temperature measurements to a remote webserver using WiFi connection. In this example, the remote server is ThingSpeak and the tenperature sensor used is Maxim’s DS18B20.