I’ve been a fan of the ESP8266 low cost, high powered IoT platform and their makers, Espressif just announced that they’ll be introducing a new chip named the ESP32 soon. It is not just a new module with the ESP8266 on it, but a whole new chip featuring many improvements. The improvements are among others: …
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On Air: Clarifying ESP8266 OTA
So those ESP8266 are awesome but I never quite figured out how to get the over the air (OTA) updating to work due to the lack of guides on how to do it. The SDK supports it and there is some decent information available on the Espressif forums, but it lacked an easy oversight on …
Lighten up your ESP8266
For a workshop I’m giving at my employer I’ve been wanting to interface a nice NeoPixel (WS2812) LED ring with an ESP8266. Using the NodeMCU boards without the actual firmware provides a nice platform that gives a small packages, with breadboard ready pin spacing & USB to serial chip. It has been a struggle to …
ESP8266, MQTT & SmartConfig
Having done a lot recently with the ESP8266 and the excellent MQTT firmware by Minh Tuan I found that there was one mayor thing missing in the whole headless module setup; An easy way to configure the ESP8266 while it didn’t have Wi-Fi yet. Looking around I found some code made by YoungBuger on GitHub which is basically …
ESP8266 under Windows
I recently got a Windows 8 tablet and sitting on the couch yesterday I realized it might be a good idea to install the Windows toolchain for making ESP8266 programs on it, along with Eclipse. Here’s the story on how to do it! The instructions are largely based on this Russian blogpost by Mikhail Grigoriev. A video …
Installing the ESP8266 toolchain
Okay, some pretext on what system I’m currently using and on which these steps are based on. I’m running Xubuntu 14.04 64bit, the steps for 32bit or the normal Ubuntu may be a little different. There are plenty of guides out there that can assist with getting the toolchain up and running on those configurations. …
Connected with the ESP8266
Recently I’ve had a lot of hands-on time with the ESP8266, a small chip made by the Chinese manufacturer Yue Xin. This little chip has got the internet buzzing with excitement as its potential is very big. So what is it? In short it’s a WiFi chip, it offers wireless connectivity and has been used …