The ESP8266 is a chip that turned a lot of heads recently, stuffing a WiFi radio, TCP/IP stack, and all the required bits to get a microcontroller on the Internet into a tiny, $5 module. It’s an ...

The Internet of Things is eating everything alive, and the world wants to know: how do you make a small, battery-powered, WiFi-enabled microcontroller device? This is a surprisingly difficult problem.

Sebastian Starks said, 'Game Boy can connect to Wi-Fi' by modifying the cartridge inserted in the Game Boy instead of modifying the Game Boy itself, which is a portable game machine released in 1989.

Hacker Sebastian Staacks had done the seemingly impossible. Using a basic 32 kiB Game Boy cartridge and an ESP8266 micro controller he’s created the first Game Boy capable of browsing the web. Why is ...

The best thing that came out of the last generation of consoles wasn’t actually a video game, it was Kinect. Microsoft shipped millions of units of this weird sensor, and then hardly anybody made ...

Open-hardware platforms enable rapid prototyping and faster time-to-market of new IoT applications. The objective of this post is to give a brief introduction to another open-hardware IoT playground — ...