2018-11-07 17:13 Placid is a cross-platform operating system for embedded systems. It can run on platforms as small as Arduino and ESP8266 all the way up to Raspberry Pi. The source code is available with an MIT licen...

2017-01-16 12:48 The ESP8266 has precious little RAM. You start with a little over 80KB, but the system takes up over 20K of that just for wifi and other required functionality. So best case you get under 60K of RAM f...

2016-09-21 12:51 For my m8rScript project I really want to use Bonjour. It would give me a way of finding many ESP8266 devices on the network without having to nail down IP addresses. The concept is simple: you give y...

2016-09-21 12:29 Embedded microcontrollers are amazing. For a few dollars you can have a postage stamp sized device with 500K of RAM, multiple megabytes of Flash ROM, Wifi, Bluetooth and lots of I/O. You can connect u...

2011-12-31 16:30 I've been planning on building an ethernet connected clock for some time now. It started as a project for my daughter, Mikayla. But my wife went out and bought both her and my other daughter Leah litt...