Cheap and Easy WiFi (IoT) Tutorial Part 1 - ESP8266 Setup/Intro
Published on Wed, Dec 17th 2014 Science & Technology Rectangular HD
In this video I'll show you how to get started with the ESP8266; wiring it up, flashing FW, and establishing a TCP connection to a data server
so you can post/retrieve data to/from your microcontroller.
Don't forget about part 2 and 3!
Electrodragon Reference:
http://www.electrodragon.com/w/Wi07c
Firmware Location:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3dUKfqzZnlwRjFaNTUzZFptbzg&usp=drive_web
I uploaded the flasher tool here, in case you can't find it:
http://www.kevindarrah.com/micro/ESP_part3/ESP8266_Flasher_Tool.zip
Adapter Board:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbL53nk8OIw
Just search eBay for "ESP8266" to find the module
The Thingspeak Data Server I demo'ed:
https://thingspeak.com
Yahoo Query Language:
https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
Original Hackaday Article (how I found out about it)
http://hackaday.com/2014/08/26/new-chip-alert-the-esp8266-wifi-module-its-5/
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