If you've been following my tutorials on ESP32, then you'll notice that the WiFi SSID and password are always hardcoded. This tutorial will show you a way to change the WiFi credentials without needing to edit and re-upload your sketch. Our aim is to create a simple ESP32 WiFi manager. …
Read More »Flame Sensor Project: Comprehensive Guide
Flame sensors are found from the simplest gas stoves to huge industrial plants. There are different types of fire sensors -- some cheap, some expensive. Yet they’re all built for one single purpose: detect fire. In this article, I will guide you on how to build a flame sensor with …
Read More »Sensor Display on ESP32 Web Server
Last time, I showed you how to setup the ESP32 development board with the Arduino programming environment. This time, I will be building a simple ESP32 web server where data from a sensor is displayed on a web page.
Read More »ESP8266 NodeMCU DHT22 Interfacing Tutorial
The DHT22 is a temperature and humidity sensor in one package. It is widely used mainly due to its price but also because of it being robust and user-friendly. In this NodeMCU DHT22 interfacing tutorial, I will guide you in creating an IoT-based weather monitoring project.
Read More »NodeMCU WiFi Jammer
There is, in fact, a way to create a NodeMCU WiFi jammer although technically, this is a deauther and not really a jammer. A jammer sends out noise on the WiFi frequency spectrum (2.4 GHz) while the program in this tutorial sends packets that disrupts the normal functions of your …
Read More »NodeMCU Pinout Reference
The NodeMCU is an Arduino-compatible board that features the ESP8266 at its core. It became popular because it is a WiFi-ready microcontroller by itself - no need for an Arduino. The aim of this article is to show all NodeMCU pinout and boards that are currently available.
Read More »Setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero Web Server
I finally got my hands on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and started the usual tinkering. For those unaware, this smaller version of the Raspberry Pi packs a 1 GHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM. But what excites me the most is the WiFI and Bluetooth connectivity that comes …
Read More »Creating NodeMCU WiFi Access Point
You can use WiFi with the NodeMCU (ESP8266) even without a WiFi router. All you need to do is create a NodeMCU WiFi Access Point and the device will now act as a WiFi gateway.
Read More »Web Server with NodeMCU WebSocket
Uploading sensor data to web servers is one of the core ideas for Internet of Things (IoT). Such data are often small-sized and are continuously updated over time. And while HTTP performs satisfactorily for simple applications, like how I showed in my NodeMCU web server tutorial, there is a need …
Read More »NodeMCU MQTT Tutorial
So far, we've been using HTTP in our NodeMCU web servers and while it works, the protocol is not really the best way for sending and receiving small-sized data for IoT applications. In this tutorial, I will introduce you to NodeMCU MQTT.
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