Introduction The available RAM for applications on the ESP8266 microcontroller is roughly 35-40 kilobytes (KB). Which is not much and every KB is quite precious. Below you will learn how to gain additional RAM in your application with a simple trick. The trick is working only for constant data and is needed if you are […]

Intro Debugging is a powerful technique that allows us to understand better the inner workings and logic of an application. It can save us a lot of time and efforts during troubleshooting. Debugging on a device, like the ESP8266 microcontroller (aka ESP), is even more helpful because it facilitates us to understand how the device is actually […]

Intro There are multiple frameworks and projects for ESP8266. One of them that stands tall is the Sming Framework . In this article you will learn how to setup the development environment for this framework, how to compile examples and flash them to ESP8266. As in the previous articles we will use Olimex’s ESP8266 dev board. Sming […]

Before you read further make sure that you have finished reading part 1 and prepared your virtual machine and hardware. In this article you will learn how to connect and access your ESP8266 from your virtual machine. Followed by creating, compiling and uploading on the device a sample Hello Real World application. Connect We will […]

ESP8266 is a game-changer chip. It provides WIFI functionality for as low as 5 $ when all competitors at the time we offering their chips for 30 $ or more. It is very small in size. In addition it has serial connectivity, Real Time Clock(RTC), General Programmable Inputs and Outputs (GPIO) and  Analog to Digital […]