When I built the NTP Clock project two years ago, I did a quick estimation that the battery will last for about 80 days for a single charge. I was wrong, it only last for 47 days. Of course, my original estimation was not precise but I was wondering why my estimation was far away from my estimation, so I recently decided to take a closer look. Continue reading "NTP Clock Project Revisit and ESP8266 RTC Memory"
I had a classic Ikea clock that damaged by the leaking battery, during the new year cleaning, my family decided to throw it away, I took it back from trash bin and thinking of a weekend tinkering project to turn it into a digital clock. Continue reading "ESP8266 NTP clock with NTP update and Charlieplexing"
I recently did a range test over a pair of ESP-01 running ESP-Now, by no means its a comprehensive test, but it gives a better understanding of ESP-01 wireless performance and the ESP-Now protocol. Continue reading "ESP-01 Range Test with ESP-Now Protocol"
I like the low price of ESP-01, but I don't quite like to use it in my project because its design always make me feel like that I'm dealing with an unfinished product. Over the past a couple of months, out of necessity for one of my project, I was forced to spent some time to figure out a better way to use ESP-01 as a WiFi shield. Continue reading "A better way to use ESP-01 as WiFi shield"