Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout
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- Don't forget cable (https://www.adafruit.com/product/954)
- Overview doc (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/overview)
- Follow instructions for adding support to the Arduino Environment for the ESP8266 chip (https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino)
- Connect USB Console cable to board (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide)
- Remember, before every download you have to:
- Hold down the GPIO0 button, the red LED will be lit
- While holding down GPIO0, click the RESET button
- Release RESET, then release GPIO0
- When you release the RESET button, the red LED will be lit dimly, this means its ready to bootload
- (from https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide)
- Copy the Blink Test code from https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide to test. Red light should blink.
- Copy the Connecting via WiFi code from https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide.
- Change ssid to "wustl-guest-2.0"
- Change password to ""
- Upload program.
- Open the serial monitor to see IP and messages from adafruit web server. Make sure the serial data rate is set to 115200 baud.
- UDP Example