November 2017
Beginner
210 pages
4h 41m
English
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ESP8266EX
The ESP8266EX (Figure 1.1) is a single-chip microcontroller developed by Espressif (https://espressif.com/). It can be used to develop low-power, highly-integrated Wi-Fi solutions especially for mobile devices, wearable electronics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The main advantage of ESP8266EX is that it can give any microcontroller access to a Wi-Fi network. As an example, it can offload all Wi-Fi networking functions for Arduino just like the Arduino Wi-Fi shield:
Figure 1.1: ESP8266EX chip
The chip has the following great features:
- Small size (5 mm x 5 mm)
- Requires minimal external circuitry
- Wide temperature ...