The ESP8266 is the answer to “I want something with Wifi.” Surprisingly, there are a number of engineers and hobbyists who have not heard of this chip or have heard of it but don’t really understand ...

Every so often we run across something in the Hackaday tip line that sends us scurrying to Google, trying to source a component, part, or assembly. The ESP8266 WiFi module is the latest, made ...

For a while now, I’ve been working on building my own network controlled LED dimmer. I sampled some commercially available remotely controllable LED dimmers, but I found they all either lacked some ...

This Arduino sketch demonstrates how to connect an ESP8266 WiFi module to a WiFi network using AT commands sent over a software serial interface. The code also reads output from the ESP8266 and ...

This project demonstrates how to establish serial communication between an Arduino board and the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module for sending and receiving data. Arduino Uno/Nano/etc. ESP8266 Wi-Fi module (e.g., ...