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Internet of Things with ESP8266

You're reading from Internet of Things with ESP8266 Build amazing Internet of Things projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468024

Length 226 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

ESP8266

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Marco Schwartz

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with the ESP8266

2. First Projects with the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER

3. Cloud Data Logging with the ESP8266

4. Control Devices from Anywhere

5. Interacting With Web Services

6. Machine-to-Machine Communications

7. Sending Notifications from the ESP8266

8. Controlling a Door Lock from the Cloud

9. Building a Physical Bitcoin Ticker

10. Wireless Gardening with the ESP8266

11. Cloud-Based Home Automation System

12. Cloud-Controlled ESP8266 Robot

13. Building Your Own Cloud Platform to Control ESP8266 Devices

Index

Hardware configuration

We are first going to see how to configure the hardware to use the ESP8266 board. This is how to connect the different components:

Hardware configuration

Basically, you need to connect your breadboard power supply VCC and GND to the ESP8266 VCC and GND. Also, connect the GND pin of the FTDI converter board to the ESP8266 GND.
Then, connect TX from the FTDI board to RX of the ESP8266 board, and then RX to TX.
Finally, connect the CH_PD (or CHIP_EN) pin of the ESP8266 board to VCC.
Once this is done, simply put the DHT11 sensor on the breadboard.
Then, connect the left pin to VCC (red power rail), the right pin to GND (blue power rail), and the pin next to VCC to the GPIO pin 5 on your ESP8266 chip. This is the final result, not showing the USB-to-Serial FTDI cables:
Tip
Make sure that you've connected everything according to the schematics, or you won't be able to continue. Also make sure that all the switches of your components (FTDI module and power supply) are set to 3.3V, or it will...

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Authors (1)

Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.

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