The ESP8266 is a chip that turned a lot of heads recently, stuffing a WiFi radio, TCP/IP stack, and all the required bits to get a microcontroller on the Internet into a tiny, $5 module. It’s an ...

The trigBoard is a battery-powered, ESP8266-based board that includes some clever circuitry to help it barely sip power (less than one microamp!) while waiting to be triggered by a digital input.

We also have a prototype implementation for the ESP8266 microcontroller built on XS which allows us to build experiments. ... it’s no surprise that not everyone is immediately on board.

Open-hardware platforms enable rapid prototyping and faster time-to-market of new IoT applications. The objective of this post is to give a brief introduction to another open-hardware IoT playground — ...

They may seem simpler, but don't be fooled: microcontrollers are perfect for a lot of my more complicated setups for a number of reasons ...