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A project log for WiFi shield for Arduino using an ESP8266 module

I'm making a WiFi shield based on the ESP8266 module and also a library and some example projects.

zeptobitZeptoBit 01/11/2015 at 14:510 Comments

I have made another project using my 8266Wing shield. It's a dimmable LED Chandelier. The brightness is set over WiFi using a program on my computer.

A few weeks ago I discovered LiveCode, a cross platform development tool (Android, Ios, Windows, Linux, Mac) so I decided to use LiveCode for this project. It turned out to be really easy to get it working. So far I have only compiled it for Windows, I need to download the Android SDK before I can compile for Android.

The hardware consists of an Arduino Uno clone, the 8266Wing shield and a small board with a mosfet driven with a PWM signal from the Arduino.

The chandelier itself is a re-purposed decoration, where I removed the original light bulb sockets and soldered in some small PCB's with 3 LEDs on each board. The LED's used are Luminus MP-2016-1100-40-80.


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