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$20 is a great price. I was going to get one until I found out that shipping would be another $10 on top. Edit: I'm in the UK.
by LukeB_UK 12y ago
$20 is a great price. I was going to get one until I found out that shipping would be another $10 on top.
Edit: I'm in the UK.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoYou can buy a much cheaper WiFi module... http://hackaday.com/2014/10/25/an-sdk-for-the-esp8266-wifi-chip/ http://hackaday.com/2014/10/25/an-sdk-for-the-esp8266-wifi-c... The ESP8266 is roughly $5 (including shipping), and has an active community, and community driven SDK. It is available in the UK, and everywhere else that DealXtreme ship to (other sellers are available).
- LukeB_UK 12y agoAwesome, thank you for this!
- makomk 12y agoBear in mind that the ESP8266 is nowhere near as polished or easy to get going with as the Spark Core. The toolchain to build firmware on your own PC and load it on is much more experimental and buggy for ESP8266, and because it doesn't have an equivalent of their cloud IDE, that's the only way you can get your code running on it.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoThat's where the community support comes in handy... http://www.esp8266.com/ http://www.esp8266.com/ ...note that there's even a subforum for compiler setup. I thought this was interesting too; using an ESP8266 to wirelessly program an Arduino... http://hackaday.com/2014/11/13/programming-an-arduino-over-wifi-with-the-esp8266/ http://hackaday.com/2014/11/13/programming-an-arduino-over-w...
- bobdvb 12y agoGiven that it is less than $5 compared to $20 there is a world of difference in price.