Few devices have hit the hacker/maker word with quite as large a bang as the ESP8266. [Brian] first reported a new $5 WiFi module back in August. Since then there have been an explosion of awesome … ...

I actually looked a lot for a way to OCR with ESP8266, but didn’t find anything i could use. Now i don’t need to check the meter so often and it’s so much easier to access, that i don’t ...