The Internet of Things is eating everything alive, and the world wants to know: how do you make a small, battery-powered, WiFi-enabled microcontroller device? This is a surprisingly difficult problem.

These days, connecting your microcontroller project to a WiFi network is pretty easy — you connect up an ESP8266 to your microcontroller project and pretend it’s a WiFi modem, using these ...

Adafruit has this week announced the availability of fully assembled Feather HUZZAH With ESP8266 WiFi development boards which are now available with headers and stacking headers. The Feather HUZZAH ...

Sebastian Starks said, 'Game Boy can connect to Wi-Fi' by modifying the cartridge inserted in the Game Boy instead of modifying the Game Boy itself, which is a portable game machine released in 1989.

Hacker Sebastian Staacks had done the seemingly impossible. Using a basic 32 kiB Game Boy cartridge and an ESP8266 micro controller he’s created the first Game Boy capable of browsing the web. Why is ...

Open-hardware platforms enable rapid prototyping and faster time-to-market of new IoT applications. The objective of this post is to give a brief introduction to another open-hardware IoT playground — ...