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EasyESP-1: A rapid prototyping and development board for ESP8266

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EasyESP-1 is a rapid prototyping development board for the low-cost, WiFi-enabled ESP8266 microcontroller. With an onboard USB-to-Serial converter pre-installed, EasyESP-1 does not require any additional hardware to download your application firmware to the ESP8266 chip. The ESP module used in this development board is ESP-12E. All the I/O pins are broken out to 0.1” female headers for easy access, as well as to standard Grove connectors for connecting Grove sensors and other compatible modules. The 180-point breadboard further facilitates experimenting and testing of external circuits. You can buy EasyESP-1 from our Tindie Store. Non US buyers can also get it from

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ESP8266 airplane spotter

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Daniel Eichhorn recently upgraded his original text version of Plane Spotter project with a colorful TFT screen displaying a map along with airplanes on it. The project requires an the ESP8266 Wifi module (Wemos D1 Mini in this case) and an ILI9341/ XPT2046 TFT display with touch screen. Features Beautiful startup splash screen Automatic geo location by using WiFi scanning. List of visible SSIDs identifies your location Automatic download of JPEGs from MapQuest Detailed information about the nearest aircraft Flight track: last 20 waypoints per aircraft displayed

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How to send email and text messages using ESP8266

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Earlier we looked at a method of programming ESP8266 to send sensor data directly to Google Sheets without using any third party modules. Now, we will expand that a little bit and learn to send an email as well as a text message (SMS) using ESP8266. In this demo, we will configure our ESP8266 to send an email and a text message when the value of a variable (which could be a sensor output, or any other physical quantity) goes beyond a threshold limit. This is not entirely a new topic as there are similar tutorials available online to show how to do

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Automatic pothole reporter

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Potholes are one of the most common paving problems. They can not only damage vehicles but are also considered a serious road hazard. mchampio has posted an Instructables about building a NodeMCU based pothole reporter that records the locations of the potholes encountered during driving and later notifies the concerned authority. The location of the potholes are captured using a GPS module. Every time a pothole is encountered, the driver needs to press a push button to record its location. It can be further automated by installing an accelerometer for detecting the potholes.

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ESP8266 weather forecaster with a beautiful enclosure (3D printed)

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Nick Koumaris from educ8s.tv has posted a new project of building a ESP8266-based weather forecast display using Wemos D1 mini board and a 1.8” Color TFT screen. Nick also shares the design files for his artistic 3d printed enclosure for this project. The ESP8266 on board Wemos D1 mini connects to the internet to retrieve the weather forecast for a particular location and displays it on the TFT screen.

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