Laser Cutted Case for the WeatherStation

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@WaldyWiz designed a wonderful case for the ESP8266 WeatherStation which you can lasercut yourself. Thank you for sharing!Got inspired? Order the development kit here: https://blog.squix.org/product/weatherstation-kit-w-white-oled for US $24.50 Resources https://wizbrewery.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/iot-laser-cut-case/ https://github.com/wizbrewery/iot-laser-cut-case    

ESP8266 Products Hitting the Market

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Today I discovered a new ESP8266 based product on Banggood which looks quite interesting: the SONOFF (maybe short for switch on/off?) from ITead Studio  which is a WiFi controllable switch in a nice and safe case for between USD $4.85 – 9. Not bad! Obviously I …

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3D Printed WeatherStation Case

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Dennis van Elteren sent me this wonderful WeatherStation case project. If you want to print this yourself you can download the .stl files from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a6692237ysiwj7m/AAARxjrN0PK5s8WQT_SeEBeIa?dl=0  Thank you Dennis for sharing!

ESP32 unboxing!

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Santa came early this year! Espressif has sent me one of the early test boards of the new kid in IoT town, the ESP32. Compared to the ESP8266 which kind of dominated the hacker space in the last 12 months the ESP32 is very powerful! …

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ESP8266 OLED display library release

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Recently I released a new version of the esp8266-oled-ssd1306 library. This library allows you to control these wonderful little displays from a ESP8266 with little effort. When I first wrote the library for the WeatherStation I had the problem that 128×64 pixels never seemed enough space …

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ESP8266 Weather Station Preview Video

The Weather Station code comes with a clock, current conditions such as temperature, humidity, pressure and precipitation, as well as a  3 day weather forecast. Get a glimpse here: Want to get one yourself? Order one in the shop!

ESP8266: NodeMCU Dev Kit V1.0 Review

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This post is due for a while now but I had so much fun actually using the NodeMCU that I totally forgot (or postponed) to write a review about it. So, let’s get started: The new NodeMCU V1.0 Dev Kit module Image Source: https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-devkit-v1.0 The first …

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ESP8266: NodeMCU Custom Build

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My colleague Marcel recently developed a web based tool that lets you choose the modules which will be compiled into the NodeMCU build. This saves you the trouble to setup your own build server with tool chain and can save you a lot of space …

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ESP8266: Flight-O-Matic

Preview for my augmented reality project: A RaspberryPi with SDR-RTL dongle picks up signals from airplanes in my relative neighbourhood. When an airplane becomes visible from by living room window it sends detailed flight information to 6 modules of 8×8 Led Matrix elements such as …

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ESP8266: NodeMCU Dev Kit Review

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Introduction I was very excited when the very same group that developed the NodeMcu Lua firmware announced their ESP8266 Dev board. I ordered one from Banggood and yesterday it arrived after more than a month. Quality The PCB seems to be well done. The silk screen …

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ESP8266: ESP-201 breakout board review

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Today finally a new package from China arrived containing an ESP8266-ESP201 bought on aliexpress. I had ordered two pieces and each came in a little plastic bag and stuck in protective foam. The bag also contained a tiny antenna that can be plugged into the connector …

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ESP8266: Test board review

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Recently a test board for the ESP8266 ESP-12 arrived. I ordered it on AliExpress and took several weeks to arrive. Since the description was really bad I had to reverse engineers the functions and pins: Pin layout of the test board As you can see the board …

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ESP8266: trying out frankenstein firmware

I just gotten into the mood of trying out firmwares for the ESP8266. There is one that behaves similar to a busybox command line tool. Download the binary from here, flash it to the ESP8266 and connect to it over the serial channel: https://github.com/nekromant/esp8266-frankenstein So far …

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