Brent Voltz makes home IoT easy with Amazon Alexa and the ESP8266. In this project, he created voice controlled lab lighting. This project is sure to brighten your day!

Arduino enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy this weekend might be interested in how to use the Arduino IoT Cloud and Amazon Alexa to interact with your sensors. A new project ...

This hack puts them together to use an Alexa voice command to open and close your blinds. DIY hacker Yavin0427 demonstrates the sweet setup in the video above.

Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE. Finall… ...

The Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266 dev board On the software side, the easiest way to get into the ESP8266 is to use the Arduino compatible mode.