April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
5h 36m
English
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Setting up the Arduino development environment for the ESP8266
To start us off, we will look at how to set up an Arduino IDE development environment so that we can use it to program the ESP8266. This will involve installing the Arduino IDE and getting the board definitions for our ESP8266 module.
Getting ready
The first thing you should do is download the Arduino IDE if you do not already have it installed on your computer. You can do that from this link:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.
The web page will appear as shown. It features that latest version of the Arduino IDE. Select your operating system and download the latest version that is available when you access the link (it was 1.6.13 at the time of writing):
When the download is complete, ...