Category Archives: ESP8266

ESP8266 SDK reboot loops with cause:2, boot mode:(3,6)

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

Recently I’ve been building and flashing some projects to the ESP8266 directly using the Espressif SDK for development (not Arduino). After changing the flash mode, I was still in a reboot loop, but was seeing “rf_cal[0] !=0x05,is 0xFF” just before … Continue reading →

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Trials and tribulations building and flashing ColorChord from scratch

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

In my efforts to create yet another improved version of my sound-response Light Suit, I elected to move to Charles Lohr’s excellent ColorChord project for sound analysis and LED driving. I wanted to add some functionality, though; mainly the ability … Continue reading →

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ESP8266 with ILI9341/XPT2046 TFT Display w/ touch

Posted on October 6, 2018 by

These 2.8″ 240×320 pixel color TFT displays for $8-10  can be found on ALiExpress. There’s also an equivalent-looking one offered by AdaFruit for $30 if you want one fast – the pins are quite differently label, but I’m willing to … Continue reading →

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ESP-01 V3 Doesn’t Reset or Run

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

I recently ordered a set of 10 new ESP-01’s from China.  After the usual few weeks, they arrived. I pulled one out, plugged it into the socket on my little interface board – which has buttons for RST and GPIO0, … Continue reading →

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Wine Fridge Temperature Controller – V2

Posted on February 6, 2018 by

In a previous post, I described how I replaced the highly-proprietary power supply on min wine refrigerator with an off-the-shelf supply and a Monster Moto shield to drive the fans and termoelectric peltier heat sinks based on the PWM (pulse-width … Continue reading →

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