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ESP8266 at AllElectronics $5.35

Posted: 26 August 2016, 13:35 PM
by GTBecker

Posted: 28 August 2016, 9:10 AM
by dlh
It's nice to see a US supplier but, the $4 WeMos D1 mini V2 includes a USB-Serial adapter, 5V & 3V3 regulators and lends itself to expansion using either their shields or those you design yourself. (I'm awaiting delivery of some mini PCBs I designed.)

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product ... 01036.html


BTW, ITead Studio is a good (and extremely inexpensive) source for PCBs.
https://www.itead.cc/open-pcb.html

Of course, shipping from China is very slow if you choose the inexpensive shipping options. (My boards, mentioned above, took 23 days for free shipping.)

Posted: 02 September 2016, 13:53 PM
by dlh
This looks even more promising although it's still a few months shy of production for the latest versions.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/omeg ... -for-iot#/

It appears well planned - it has the computing power of the Raspberry Pi plus built-in WiFi with a footprint marginally larger than the WeMos D1 mini (but needing more auxilliary boards). It boots a version of OpenWRT out-of-the-box. And there are numerous expansion modules that span very wide fields of interest. That it comes from a company called Onion is slightly worrisome.
https://wiki.onion.io/Home

There's a $5 (Omega2) version with limited memory and a $9 (Omega2 Plus) version with more memory and a microSD slot. Both also need a dock for power and communication. You can preorder through IndieGoGo.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/omeg ... -for-iot#/

And, I just came across the $10 Orange Pi which has an enormous amount of onboard memory. It's unclear what else it may require.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/31 ... board.html

Posted: 17 October 2016, 9:20 AM
by dlh
Espressif says...
ESP8285 is the ESP8266 chip embedded with 1 MByte flash memory specially designed for wearable devices.
Itead has a $2.10 ESP8285 board.
https://www.itead.cc/psf-b85.html
There's USA supplier of a development board on Tindie.
https://www.tindie.com/products/onehors ... ent-board/