I've been playing with these ESP8266 devices lately and they're incredible. They sip power, they cost 2 bucks, and are incredibly versatile. Watch these chips in the future. They're really gonna push the envelope for the IoT.
But the ESP8266 also can be used as the perfect countermeasure against warwalking/driving - it's easy to have one spoof SSIDs, hundreds and hundreds of them: <a href="http://ruralhacker.blogspot.pt/2016/01/esp8266-jamming.html" rel="nofollow">http://ruralhacker.blogspot.pt/2016/01/esp8266-jamming.html</a>
Does anyone have a good tutorial to get started? I have a few ESP8266s for a project I'm working on. I have a solar regulator that outputs the load over serial connection. I'd like to do this over wifi so i don't have to run a 50ft serial cable.
It's too bad they don't have GPS but maybe tower location is good enough. It would be cool as anything to have these get cheap enough you could attach one to every runner's bib in the New York City Marathon and watch the resulting data set.<p>I could see both real-time location services (where's my wife on the course?), cheating prevention (why is this tag in the back of a taxi on 8th avenue?) and so on. People would probably pay $5-$10 extra to have that attached to their bib for their family to see.<p>Sure you can accomplish the same using any number of iphone / android tracking apps but they're all battery suckers.
Original source for hack: <a href="https://www.hackster.io/rayburne/warwalking-a9c021" rel="nofollow">https://www.hackster.io/rayburne/warwalking-a9c021</a>
Does anybody know of a low powered chip that's standalone can be used as an addon to the ESP8266,which is capable of sending rf signals in the 60ft range?<p>Basically I'm trying to have a setup with a few low powered devices that can talk to a central device. I figured each one having wifi would be too expensive and power consuming so I was think of sending rf signals to communicate. I'm more than open to ideas since this is my first project of this sort. Please and thank you!
I wonder how long the battery lasts? I've been playing with the ESP8266 chips as well, and they're great. Haven't had a chance to hook them up to a battery yet or test more precise power consumption.