ESP8266 - WiFi chip that can be a full microcontroller

published May 12, 2015 12:45   by admin ( last modified May 12, 2015 01:56 )

Including kind of compatible with Arduino. It obviously can do WiFi, but people have now hacked so that you do not need a microcontroller or computer to control it. It can do that by itself, including accepting a lot of Arduino code. ESP8266 Community Forum View topic - Arduino IDE released for ESP8266

This board exposes all the pins, including serial and PWM MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV - Open Source Hardware Board

Lua based firmware nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware

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