Few devices have hit the hacker/maker word with quite as large a bang as the ESP8266. [Brian] first reported a new $5 WiFi module back in August. Since then there have been an explosion of awesome ...

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

It’s still very useful as the ESP-12E is a self-contained 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller featuring the ESP8266 SOC, and hence it can be used as a cheap and easy way to add Wi-Fi ...

However, there were several key security issues with the 2018 version of the lights due to the use of the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module in the lights’ control box, which researchers at the time called ...

The system is powered by a Microchip PIC microcontroller connected to a Sparkfun ESP8266 Wi-Fi module.