The Internet of Things is eating everything alive, and the world wants to know: how do you make a small, battery-powered, WiFi-enabled microcontroller device? This is a surprisingly difficult problem.

Thanks to low-cost WiFi enabled microcontrollers such as the ESP8266 and ESP32, it’s never been a better time to roll your own smart home system. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t daunting for new ...

ESPConnect is a capable flashing utility for ESP32 and ESP8266 boards. It depends on the Arduino IDE or PlatformIO IDE if you plan to use community-submitted or ready-made firmware. The web-based ...

ESPHome, an open-source project, lets you program ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers, along with sensors and other hardware, ...

Electronics enthusiasts looking for a new way to create Internet of Things projects may be interested in a couple of new development boards which have been created by Jimmy Wu based in Shenzhen. The ...

The Chinese chip manufacturer Espressif is known for its cheap and widely used microcontrollers with integrated WLAN, ESP8266 and ESP32. The new ESP32-P4 is significantly more powerful because it ...

An open-source ecosystem allows sharing application resources and providing technical support through an active developers’ community. OpenPLC is a programming editor that support the International ...