Building a simple remote control with ESP-01
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:14 pmHello! I'm an engineering student working on a design project that involves building a remote controlled lawn mower. I've been toying with an ESP-01 board. So far I have it working using the Arduino IDE and a boiler plate sketch shown below. I'm using the ESP-01 to output HTTP get requests to a Raspberry Pi via TWI at the moment. While that would work for my project, I can't help but think this is a terrible solution to write a control protocol. Can anyone link me to some documentation for a potential better solution? The idea is to use a Windows machine to connect to the ESP-01 hotspot and command the lawn mower from a custom software without requiring additional hardware at the transmitter end. I am fairly comfortable writing C, C++, C#, Python, and Arduino, and am willing to learn whatever in order to complete the project.