The ESP-07/ESP-12 is a generic ESP8266 module which have no bootstapping resistors on board, insufficient decoupling capacitors, no reset circuit, and no USB-serial adapter. This is an article shows you how to connect the bootstapping resistor to the ESP-07 module and upload sketches onto the ESP-07/ESP-12 using the familiar Arduino IDE.

Due to the limited GPIO availability on the wireless router, you may want use the router LED pin to provides a few more GPIOs. This describes how to use the LED pin on a wireless router as binary outputs. 

A guide on how to use the L298N Motor Driver Controller Board, this is a dual motor controller board that allow you to control the direction & speed of two DC motors or one stepper motor.

The L298N Motor Driver Controller Board is a very low cost module, there are several design variants available on the market, mine get from GEARBEST.

This is a motor library for Lua running on wireless router which flashed with OpenWrt firmware. It allows a wireless router control the motors without using micro-controller. This library works on any dual-full-bridge driver such as L298.

Each motor require two GPIOs for controlling, therefore 2 motors will use up 4 GPIOs. Most of the wireless router may not have enough GPIO to control the motors, but you can use other pin on the router such as the LED pin, this require to unload the leds_gpio module.

To compile OpenWrt from source, you need a computer running Linux such as Ubuntu. If you are like me and don't have a Linux computer, you can still use your Windows computer to compile OpenWrt.

In order to run Linux on a Windows, you must install virtual machine on you computer. Virtual machines allow you to run any operating system in a window on your desktop, I'm using the free VirtualBox for my case, please read here for details.

I'm a Windows user and I always play with Linux on embedded system. Therefore I need a computer which is effective exchange of information between Windows OS & Linux OS.

This article provides information on how to install Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox with the following features:

1. Run both Linux(Ubuntu) and Windows together.
2. Sharing clipboard content between OS
3. File sharing between OS
4. Internet connection sharing

I want to built a wifi car without using micro contoller, due to the limited GPIO availability on the wireless router, a 74HC595 Shift Register is needed to expand its outputs.

This is a 74HC595 Shift Register library for Lua running on wireless router flashed with OpenWRT, it may run in any linux-based embedded system. It can be used to shift out data from either the most (i.e. the leftmost) or least (rightmost) significant bit.

This is a very simple GPIO read/write functions for Lua running on linux-based embedded system, it is based on Arduino digital input/output syntax.

Only four functions are available: pinMode, digitalWrite, digitalRead & delay

Update: Added pin_direction_status() function on 16 Oct 2015

Insert 3G dongle and restart router.

Append to following line to /etc/config/network configuration file. Here is the settings for setup Maxis 3G network.

Restart the router.

In my projects I needed a tool to monitor data in real time, the data is captured by a microcontroller and uploaded to the web using a wireless router. Initially I was trying to use yeelink since it is in chinese langguage and yet I'm a Malaysian Chinese.

One month ago, I have tried with Ubidots, there were a few things that caught my eye.