Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE ...

After installing Arduino IDE, an icon will be created on your desktop. Use this icon to open the Arduino IDE. Open the "Tools" menu, go to "Board," and select "Arduino/Genuino Uno." Then, click on ...

License and credits Arduino IDE is developed and maintained by the Arduino team. The IDE is licensed under GPL. ESP8266 core includes an xtensa gcc toolchain, which is also under GPL. Esptool.py was ...

Programming the ESP8266 and ESP32 for Mesh Networking For this article, we are going to use Arduino IDE to program the ESP32 and the ESP8266 boards. Here, we will use the Painless Mesh library to ...

In this tutorial, we are going to set up the NodeMCU-ESP8266 with the Arduino Cloud IoT. To test it out, we will send DHT11 sensor data from the board to the cloud, and set up a switch that can ...

Arduino offers you a broad ecosystem of cheap hardware with a beginner-friendly IDE, helped by forum posts explaining every single problem that you could and will stumble upon.

The Arduino Cloud Editor used to support all the official Arduino boards, plus some ESP32 and ESP8266 boards, but the new version is now compatible with any device that works with the Arduino IDE.