But even as it is, this is a great little programmer that can be sourced and assembled easily and cheaply. This isn’t the first 3D printed ESP8266 programmer we’ve seen, and there are some ...

Enter the ESP8266 and some programming wizardry. [Sebastian] is using a NodeMCU but suggests that it could be pared down to any ESP8266 board — with similar cuts made to the rest of the ...

That's where an ESP8266 comes in. It's basically a Wi-Fi microcontroller that you can hook up to more or less anything, and there are a few reasons why you should consider it as the centerpiece of ...