vikoma
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These boards are typically used as shields with arduino boards for WiFi. And these boards are cheap - $2.50 to $3.00.
Now, the arduino software can directly allow you to use these boards: ESP8266 as Arduino
And that opens up a really cheap, programmable logic to build DIY projects. Even for audio, there are efforts to stream audio via WiFi and get it as I2S out of these boards; though no one seems to have done this yet. It will become easier with arduino directly supporting this chip now.
Now, the arduino software can directly allow you to use these boards: ESP8266 as Arduino
And that opens up a really cheap, programmable logic to build DIY projects. Even for audio, there are efforts to stream audio via WiFi and get it as I2S out of these boards; though no one seems to have done this yet. It will become easier with arduino directly supporting this chip now.