Ray Wang has been experimenting with the ESP8266 Serial-to-WiFi module, which has gained much hype recently. “The module is very compact, easy to interface with, and inexpensive. I wrote an Arduino program to show how to use the Arduino to communicate with the WiFi module and set up a very simple web server.” Check out the blog post at RaysHobby.
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Ray have you checked out all the wonderful support for the chip at http://www.esp8266.com…. see you there ;-)
What is the current compiler- and librarystatus?
I do like the simpleness of the chip, but it seems to me the compiler and library is still in early stage. At least an opensource version ;)
It is far enough along to blink an LED.
There is a virtual VM that you can use to compile the firmware:
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?t=123&p=676
I did get everything downloaded but haven’t tried myself.
Yup, I mentioned http://www.esp8266.com in my post.
Very good topic! Nice work!