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 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… ...

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 ...

Light fidelity (Li-Fi) is a widely adopted form of wireless communication that uses optical energy to verify device ...

According to I Programmer, the on-board Espressif ESP8266 Wi-Fi chipset adds about $2 to the cost of manufacturing the device.

Each cartridge will include an ESP8266 Wi-Fi chipset and an FPGA to manage communications between the NES and the Wi-Fi chipset, we're told, and will use rollback netcode.