[BurritoBeans]

'ello,

I'm just making this thread to see if anyone knows any good info on those little ESP8266 WiFi modules. Recently for the hell of messing with hardware I backed a project involving these on Kickstarter, ESP Everywhere, AKA this thing on my keyring:



...which is nice. It's got an ESP8266MOD from the vendor AI-Thinker on the board and is really simple to communicate with as it has an FDTI built-in - there's USB connectivity and a GPIO breakout, it's been simple-ish to work with anyways as I can just plug it in via USB and program using the arduino IDE. I always have a power brick or two on me that can supply the 5V it needs so this seemed like it would be cool as I have two - one that's still an unpopulated PCB and this one.

As-of now all I've done is a little reading - I went through a datasheet to see what it's got, and read some basic info. For a project, so far I've only made a little local server which has buttons to swap the arcade machine from the Splatterhouse board to the Chiller board or the Neo Geo MVS using an Arduino rather than going behind it and moving a switch - it's nothing complex anyways. The idea right now is that I'll put a second one into my binder for school running off of a power brick thing, and nobody will every see it because it's nice and small.

I asked a few friends at school for ideas but nobody else really has a good plan on what to do apart from maybe fuck with some WiFi hotspots that a few of the idiots are constantly putting up - people just use 'em to get on facebook/snapchat or watch porn from my experience - but I said "eh, maybe another day" to that idea due to not knowing a ton about messing with networks past a project on my Onion Omega 2+ that I run out of my locker.

So, if anyone just knows anything about these I'd appreciate learning a bit or two, or maybe someone has a project idea that you could do with it, be it just a plain ESP8266 in a more traditional format say strapped to a breadboard, or this whole module - I've got ten more ESPs coming anyways (they're cheap, so eh may as well get a few) so I can populate my other board and just have a few more to mess with. Google has been alright so far but apart from a forum full of little home automation projects (Which are neat but I don't really want to do, not exactly my thing...) I can't find a ton.

[Blink]

I never thought about making thread about this...


Aren't they like $3 per board?

[BurritoBeans]

I never thought about making thread about this...


Aren't they like $3 per board?

Eh, I figure there's a "Hardware" section, so it'd fit.
The boards are real cheap - the modules themselves are in the $2-4 range it looks like (from banggood at least) depending on how much flash storage you want, or a full board with USB and GPIO in the $5+ range.