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Agreed. Most people start with arduino devices, but they're a little limited compared to the ESP8266 - which is programmed by the same tools but has on-board w
by stevekemp 7y ago
Agreed. Most people start with arduino devices, but they're a little limited compared to the ESP8266 - which is programmed by the same tools but has on-board wifi.
Hookup a board to an i2c LCD-display, and then write code to poll a remote website and display text on it. It'll be a reasonably easy project for a beginner and will get you in the mindset of working on a constrained device.
After that you can go smaller, using devices with less RAM & I/O, or you can go bigger and look at embedded ARM/x86 boards which can run Linux - but still have their own quirks.