Few devices have hit the hacker/maker word with quite as large a bang as the ESP8266. [Brian] first reported a new $5 WiFi module back in August. Since then there have been an explosion of awesome ...

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 ...

It’s still very useful as the ESP-12E is a self-contained 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller featuring the ESP8266 SOC, and hence it can be used as a cheap and easy way to add Wi-Fi ...