ESPeriments with Nginx (Part I)
*rises from coffin* I have returned from the dead insanely-busy (I know that’s not a real word) ! Hope you guys have had a swell time. Been doing lots of work on stuff, both personal and professional so I’ve had very little time to settle down and write. Luckily I just completed a milestone project so I had some time to kill. *sips Pina Colada* Today’s post will be a bit lengthy – to make up for lost time . But first, some context. I spent most of January working on a small IoT sort of solution. I won’t go into specifics, but the salient points involved using an ESP12-E module to make requests to a local server (a server on a local network not the internet). For the uninitiated, the ESP12-E module is a cheap (~$3) WiFi-enabled microcontroller…thing. It runs at 80MHz, has up to 4MBytes of flash space and has ~8 GPIOs. It is also Arduino-compatible, so you can get up to speed fairly quickly with it. There are excellent guides on the net describing how to wire the thing up, how ...