On the hardware side, this is exactly what you’d expect: an LED hanging off the digital pin of an ESP8266 module.

Now it’s all set. Let’s upload the simple sketch (included below) to test the setup with the onboard blue LED of ESP-01. After successful uploading of the code, the execution of the code makes the LED ...

If you want to blink a ton of WS2812-alike LED pixels over WiFi, the hardware side of things is easy enough: an LED strip, and ESP8266 unit, and a beefy enough power supply to feed them. But the ...