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!

Something like “I give up”, perhaps. When Alexa tells the drink dispenser to turn on, the ESP8266 fires a relay which starts up a small 12 V air pump.

Okay, maybe it was a little limited, but nostalgia doesn’t care. Now [mcuhacker] is working on bringing some of those memories back by getting a PC-XT emulator running on an ESP8266.

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