May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 48m
English
The ESP8266 is a low-cost, Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller produced by Espressif Systems out of China. It became very popular after the translation of the Chinese documentation into English in 2014.
Many different models of the ESP8266 exist. The first model, called the ESP01, does not have a USB connection but its small size makes it a perfect component for deployment in small IoT applications.
However, due to the ESP8266's limited resources, it is not a very good microcontroller to use with MicroPython.
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