ESP8266 Programming Using Arduino IDE (Mac OSX and Windows)

• Your support helps me post videos more frequently: https://www.patreon.com/acrobotic https://www.paypal.me/acrobotic https://buymeacoff.ee/acrobotic BTC: 1ZpLvgETofMuzCaKoq5XJZKSwe5UNkwLM ========== • Find me on: https://twitter.com/acrobotic https://facebook.com/acrobotic https://instagram.com/acrobotic ========== • Parts & supplies: https://acrobotic.com/shop https://amazon.com/shops/acrobotic ========== In this video tutorial I show you how to write custom firmware for the ESP8266 (ESP-12E) Serial to Wi-Fi module using the Arduino IDE. The development board includes the ESP-12E module and a USB to Serial UART interface, which tremendously facilitates programming the ESP8266! Below are relevant links as mentioned in the video. Video editing/production: Zahari Schtonov (https://twitter.com/zwaves) ACROBOTIC Development Board for ESP8266: https://acrobotic.com/products/acr-00018 http://amzn.to/2dAZ1mW (affiliate) Download the Arduino IDE from: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software Download the USB drivers for the USB to Serial UART module: https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers Enter the following URL into the "Additional Board Manager URLs" field in the preferences menu of the IDE: http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json Remember that you can add multiple URLs, separating them with commas! I have a detailed guide for getting started with the ESP8266 including explanations of what AT Commands and NodeMCU are all about: http://learn.acrobotic.com/tutorials/post/esp8266-getting-started Music by Jason Shaw (http://audionautix.com/). Creative Commons License 3.0. ========== #ESP8266 #Arduino #Tutorial