adysan

This is an amazing post. Cant wait to see a followup when these things start shipping.

Nothing really, as for the ESP, I'm using a NodeMCU 1.0 dev kit, but that's just for convenience of uploading the sketch. All you really need is the display, ESP-12E and power.

And of course, you need something to host the VNC server at the correct screen size, in this case it's a Raspberry Pi.

Thanks. Ady here, I wrote that post. There have been surprisingly few successful dev boards with ESP8266 modules. I'd love to see something with smaller modules like ESP-09 and ESP-03. Most of them are using ESP12 variants there days due to the large GPIO count. But sometimes all we need is a single GPIO with all the ESP8266 goodness! I'l love to see one of these in the Digispark form factor. The closes one I've seen is the WeMos D1 mini.

Nah, image through a single fiber sounds like a hoax, it's against the physics of how optic fibers work. But if it's a bundle on fibers, I can see how that would work, but again, projecting it onto a surface seems unlikely. The moment the light leaves the fiber, it starts dispersing.

You're correct in accusing me of using Philips Hue as click bait. Just updated the post title. I was using 'Philips Hue' more like as adjective rather than a proper noun.

My thoughts on this: Seeing ESP8266 in the title itself implies DIY or Hack to me. Practically everything using ESP8266 out there is a DIY project as of today. When your see things like 'OTA firmware updates for ESP8266' or 'HTTPS server' using ESP8266, doesn't mean those are secure in anyway. I'm not really trying to attack the Philips Hue lineup here. My intention is to get people to stop making proof of concept DIY IOT experiments and show them that with the HomeKit API this can be actually useful at home. And if the words 'Philips Hue' help me get some attention to this matter, why not?