CCS811 digital gas sensor and ESP8266 example

CCS811 is a low-power digital gas sensor solution, which integrates a gas sensor solution for detecting low levels of VOCs typically found indoors, with...

Wemos Mini and L3GD20 sensor

The L3GD20 is a low-power three-axis angular rate sensor. This is the module I bought for reference More information can be found at http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/mems-and-sensors/gyroscopes/l3gd20.html about the...

GA1A12S202 light sensor example

In this example we will connect a GA1A12S202 Log-Scale Analog Light Sensor to an Arduino. The features of this sensor are as follows Output voltage increases...

Wemos and LM35 temperature sensor

In this example we will connect an LM35 temperature sensor to our Arduino The LM35 series are precision integrated-circuit temperature sensors, whose output voltage is...

ESP8266 and Ambient light Shield example

This was another new shield for the Wemos called the Ambient light Shield , this time its based around the BH1750FVI digital Ambient Light Sensor Lets...

ESP8266 and DS1624 sensor example

The DS1624 consists of two separate functional units: a 256-byte nonvolatile E2 memory and a direct-to-digital temperature sensor. The nonvolatile memory is made up of...

ESP8266 and LSM6DS3 accelerometer and gyroscope example

The LSM6DS3 is a system-in-package featuring a 3D digital accelerometer and a 3D digital gyroscope performing at 1.25 mA (up to 1.6 kHz ODR)...

ESP8266 and BMP388 barometric pressure sensor

In this article we look at another sensor - it is a BMP388 by Bosch Sensortec, so lets crack on and try this out...

TM1637 7 segment display example

A common display module that you can buy on the internet contain the Tm1638 driver chip, I was interested in this one which is the...

Using a LTR-329 Ambient Light sensor with an ESP8266

In this article we look at an Ambient Light sensor, the LTR-329 and connect it to an ESP8266 board - a Wemos D1 Mini...

Wemos Mini and HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor

The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor uses sonar to determine distance to an object like bats or dolphins do. Ultrasonic ranging module HC-SR04 provides 2cm - 400cm...

ESP8266 Micropython I2C Scanner

This is a simple very short code example in which we show how to create a basic I2CScanner in Micropython using the uPyCraft IDE...

ESP8266 and BMA250 acceleration sensor example

The BMA250E is an advanced, ultra-small, triaxial, low-g acceleration sensor with digital interfaces, aiming for low-power consumer electronics applications. Featuring 10 bit digital resolution,...

Wemos and 4067 example

The 4067 was one of the IC's that I wanted to connect up to various microcontrollers as it looked extremely useful, here is a quick...

Some Neopixel examples

This example takes the Wemos Mini Ws2812B example a bit further on and use an 8 LED Neopixel strip Here is an image of the strip we...

Wemos Mini WS2812b example

The WS2812 family is a intelligent control LED light source that the control circuit and RGB chip are integrated in a package of 5050...