Programming PIC Microcontrollers with XC8

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13. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

Armstrong Subero¹ 

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Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago

 

Low-Cost Wireless Connectivity

In this chapter, we look at the basics of Bluetooth with the low-cost HC05 Bluetooth module. The chapter also discusses using Wi-Fi and the device that took the embedded market by storm, the ESP8266.

Integrating Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a type of protocol used for wireless networking. Wi-Fi allows a device to communicate over TCP/IP wirelessly. The most important parts of the Wi-Fi network are the Wireless Access Point (AP) , which is the epicenter of the communications, and a station, which is a device that has the ability to connect ...