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Remote wifi data logger with ESP8266

April 2, 2023March 24, 2023 by andriejsazanowicz

ESP8266 is a wonderful board with wifi cheapest supported monitoring mode and package injection. ESP8266 is available for only 4$ on Amazon, might be programmed with both Arduino C and micropython. To do so, on python, we need to flash the board with appropriate fireware. Today, I would show our simple Arduino project inspired by … Read more

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