Talk to Huzzah from Your Smartphone Using Blynk.cc @hackaday @blynk_app
Blynk claim their platform can “build a graphic user interface in a matter of minutes.” Hackaday.io user Richard Hogben shows you how that’s possible, using the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout!
Blynk.cc can build a UI to control an Arduino over the internet. The Huzzah ESP8266 is a cool way to get started quickly for only $10.
In this project I prepare the Huzzah for Arduino programming and setup Bylnk.cc to blink LEDs on the Huzzah from my smartphone.
Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 Breakout: Add Internet to your next project with an adorable, bite-sized WiFi microcontroller, at a price you like! The ESP8266 processor from Espressif is an 80 MHz microcontroller with a full WiFi front-end (both as client and access point) and TCP/IP stack with DNS support as well. Read more.
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