When we first heard about it a few weeks ago, we knew the ESP8266 UART to WiFi module was a special beast. It was cheap, gave every microcontroller the ability to connect to a WiFi network, and cou… ...

Every so often we run across something in the Hackaday tip line that sends us scurrying to Google, trying to source a component, part, or assembly. The ESP8266 WiFi module is the latest, made inter… ...

If you take a deep look at the D1 Wi-Fi board, you will see that it is different from the claimed to be new version WeMos D1 R2. That is because the latter (D1 R2) has a ESP8266-12F (Not 12E) Wi-Fi ...