There's a new Raspberry Pi. This is exciting. It also has on-board WiFi. This makes it doubly exciting! One of my first thoughts was, can I use it as a SoftAP for some ESP8266 sensor nodes? As it turns out, you can, and it's not that difficult, as the BCM43438 chip is supported by the open-source brcmfmac driver! Packages The first step is to install the required packages: sudo apt-get install dns