Sweet! That turns this into an Arduino compatible board which solves something that has long bothered me. I’ve seen a ton of really simple Arduino projects that use the ESP8266 externally.

Who Makes These Things? The WeMos D1 R1 is actually a Wi-Fi development board based on ESP8266-12E, which looks like an Arduino Uno board but the core part is the ESP-12E chip. Surprisingly boards ...

This is a bit more complex than one would first think, as the Arduino Mega2560 is a 5V board, and the ESP8266 are 3.3V parts. Level shifters to the rescue!

The new board is called Giga R1 WiFi, and has an Arm Cortex-M7 running at 480MHz and M4 at 240MHz, with two additional connectors for the additional IO, one of which can handle a camera.

There's the 53x101 mm Mega 2560 with 54 digital I/O pins, the 53x68 mm Zero with 32-bit low-power ARM processor, and the 25x61 mm MKR1000 WIFI with built-in Wi-Fi functionality.

'Makers, step up your game.' That's the promise, or command, that Arduino makes about its new high-level board, the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi. It will, says Arduino, pack advanced features into an ...

Spark Devices wants the inclusion of WiFi in devices to be a matter of when, not if -- and if its new Spark Core gets to market as planned, tinkerers might never have a moment of doubt. The tiny ...