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This is so Cool! A 99 cents Chip can do so many things. I am using it currently for Automatic Garden Monitoring system[1]. I never realized this small chip can do big things. Very Impressive.

[1]https://iot-playground.com/blog/2-uncategorised/94-esp8266-s...

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You might want to grab a capacitive soil moisture sensor btw because those two pin ones almost always corrode after some time, especially with more power going through them

Thank you for the suggestions. I have noticed some corrosion. I will look into getting the capacitive moisture sensor .

Indeed they are not meant to be powered all the time - only for brief moments when taking a reading. Unless your purpose is to electrolyze your garden.

Which is why when many advocate for pre-historic embedded development practices it just shows being out of touch how many cheap options are now 90's like hardware, with more capabilities than Amiga/Atari/PC/Mac had a their disposal on a stamp size CPU.

True, The key here is "Cheap". How can one quantity CPU capability and Cost together?. Can someone please shed some light on this?

The comment I replied to mentioned 99 cents, which will be probably much less when bought at scale.

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