July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 6m
English
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Chapter 12. Cloud-Controlled ESP8266 Robot
In this book so far, we mainly used the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip to build Internet of Things projects that were related to the home automation or security fields, such as the remote-controlled door lock, or the complete home automation system we built in Chapter 11, Cloud-Based Home Automation System.
However, the ESP8266 is a very versatile chip, and can be used for several fields other than the two I cited above. For example, it can also be used as the "brain" of a mobile robot, and this is exactly what we are going to do in this chapter.
We are going to build a small mobile robot that will be completely controlled by the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip. We are going to connect the motors of the robot to the ESP8266 Wi-Fi ...