Connecting a basic Touch sensor

This example shows how to interface a basic touch sensor to our Wemos Mini (esp8266), this sensor came as part of a kit of...

Using a STTS22H temperature sensor with an ESP8266

In this article we look at a temperature sensor, the STTS22H sensor from ST and connect it to an ESP8266 board Sensor Information The STTS22H is...

The Wemos IR controller shield

In this small article we take a look at the IR controller shield, this is a shield which can act as an IR receiver...

BH1750FVI Ambient Light Sensor example

The BH1750FVI is an digital Ambient Light Sensor IC for I2C bus interface. This IC is the most suitable to obtain the ambient light...

Wemos and basic TEA5767 example

The TEA5767HN is a single-chip electronically tuned FM stereo radio for low-voltage applications with fully integrated Intermediate Frequency (IF) selectivity and demodulation. The radio...

Wemos OLED shield example

In this example we look at another terrific little low cost shield for the Wemos mini, this time its the OLED shield. Lets look...

QRE1113 IR reflectance sensor and ESP8266 example

The QRE1113 features an easy-to-use analog output, which will vary depending on the amount of IR light reflected back to the sensor. The QRE1113...

Wemos and ADS1015 example

The ADS1015 is a precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with 12 bits of resolution offered in an ultra-small, leadless QFN-10 package or an MSOP-10 package. The...

Wemos Infrared receiver example

In this example we look at how to connect an IR Reciever. Generally, they require Vcc(5v) but I found this to work well with 3v3, GND...

Read and write to the eeprom on the ESP8266

Description The ESP8266 has 512 bytes of internal EEPROM, this could be useful if you need to store some settings, such as an IP address...

BME680 environment sensor and ESP8266 example

In this article we will connect a BME680 sensor to an ESP8266 - as usual we will use a Wemos Mini BME680 is an integrated...

Using a 74HC595 shift register with the Wemos

Sometimes in your projects you simply do not have enough I/O lines available, take for example a lot of the multiple LED examples, these...

Wemos Mini and DHT Pro example

In this example we connect the DHT22 Single Bus Digital Temperature Humidity Sensor (DHT Pro shield) to our Wemos Mini , you can see this...

TMP175 digital temperature sensor and ESP8266 example

Another sensor or module to cross our path, this time we will look at the TMP175 digital temperature sensors We will connect one of these up...

CCS811 digital gas sensor and ESP8266 example

CCS811 is a low-power digital gas sensor solution, which integrates a gas sensor solution for detecting low levels of VOCs typically found indoors, with...
ESP8266 and L3G4200D layout

L3G4200D three-axis gyroscope and ESP8266 example

In this example we connect a L3G4200D three-axis gyroscope module to a Wemos Mini - you can of course use any ESP8266 based board...