The ESP8266 is a chip that turned a lot of heads recently, stuffing a WiFi radio, TCP/IP stack, and all the required bits to get a microcontroller on the Internet into a tiny, $5 module. It’s… ...

The ESP8266 WiFi module is the latest, made interesting because it pretty much doesn’t exist outside China. Why is it cool?

This Arduino sketch demonstrates how to connect an ESP8266 WiFi module to a WiFi network using AT commands sent over a software serial interface. The code also reads output from the ESP8266 and ...