Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE. Finall… ...

Programming: There’s a ROM for That There’s a few things to take note of when programming the ESP8266. One is that there are a bunch of functions that are built into the ROM you can leverage.

} } Programming the ESP8266 in the Arduino IDE The Adafruit ESP8266 that I used comes with the LUA interpreter installed by default. To use the Arduino IDE, we are going to overwrite that by uploading ...