Wified Arduino 8266

Hardware

8266 can be programmed as every other arduino or in lua langage if you have the right firmware.

• There is plenty of ESP8266 boards available.
• The "ready made", brain free one is a devboard called nodemcu.
• it's 3.3 V board.
• It's a tiny board, with almost no memory, nice at home, but if you want reliable internet behavior, send the data to a real server.

Software

• Basically there is 2 main firmware paradigms :

* you want speed, realtime or love arduino : go to arduino IDE
* you prefer the easy path : get one with lua firmware or upload it !

• You can use a terminal i.e : screen /dev/tty.USB0 9600
• Esplorer is great but use java.
• luatool is in python and just works with a lua firmware. Download source. You need pyserial : sudo easy_install pyserial
• to flash the thing it's esptool : tutorial

Links

• Lot of great projects
• Allaboutcircuits
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