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I feel like the title is a misnomer given the article is called "ESP8266: This $5 Microcontroller with Wi-Fi is now Arduino-Compatible," and on that front it's
by ochoseis 11y ago
I feel like the title is a misnomer given the article is called "ESP8266: This $5 Microcontroller with Wi-Fi is now Arduino-Compatible," and on that front it's really easy to get started with these [0]! ESP8266 boards abound on AliExpress, the easiest of which to get started with are NodeMCU variants. One example with seemingly good documentation is the Wemos D1 Mini [1] that comes with a USB-to-serial chip onboard. Here's another decent reference I found to getting started with them [2].
[0] GitHub repo for plugging into the Arduino IDE: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
[1] http://www.wemos.cc/wiki/doku.php?id=en:d1_mini http://www.wemos.cc/wiki/doku.php?id=en:d1_mini
[2] http://www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com/2015/11/esp8266-node-mcu-setup.html http://www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com/2015/11/esp8266-node-...