whereas that's what the ESP8266 is built around. It's basically designed to give Wi-Fi chops to whatever it's connected to, turning anything into a wireless sensor. For example, I've seen them ...

[Marc] and [Xavi] just wrote up a quick tutorial on how to turn the ESP8266 into a WiFi sensor platform that will relay the state of a GPIO pin to the Internet. If you’re going to replicate this ...

First the obvious-in-retrospect fail. [Richard] built a board with a temperature sensor and an ESP8266 module to report the temperature to the Interwebs. If you’ve ever put your finger on an ...