Название: Learn about the ESP8266 using Wemos shields
Автор: Iain Hendry
Издательство: Amazon Digital Services LLC
ASIN: B07QYGJZ27
Год: 2019
Страниц: 148
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, azw3, pdf (conv)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi microchip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller capability produced by manufacturer Espressif Systems in Shanghai, China.

This book looks at this microcontroller using the Wemos Mini and a variety of small shields to enhance the functionality of the board.

The WeMos D1 mini is a miniature wireless Wifi microcontroller development board. It uses the popular ESP8266 module and puts it into a fully fledged development board. Programming the D1 mini is as simple as programming any other Arduino based microcontroller as the module includes a built in micro USB interface allowing the module to be programmed directly from the Arduino IDE this does require that you add the ESP8266 support to via the board manager but that is a fairly easy task that we will show you how to do that in another chapter.

The D1 mini is designed to allow Wemos compatible shields to be plugged into the board in a similar way to the Arduino development board platform which greatly expands its capabilities. Included with the module is a set of headers that require soldering that allow the shields to be easily added or removed from the D1 mini.

The book is split into 3 categories:

Basic examples that do not require any shields such as a basic webserver, wifi example, SPIFFS and more
A look at 19 shields with examples - these include the DHT shield, SHT30 shield, BMP180 shield and many more
How to combine shields to create other projects such as DHT22 readings on an OLED display simple project which uses 3 shields and a Wemos mini

All of the examples use the popular Arduino IDE which is free, all of the code is available from our github site for ease of reading as well.