Right now, getting the ESP8266 to work requires a fair amount of work and to make things easier, [Abdulgafur] built a ESP8266 development board.

This project demonstrates how to control a servo motor using a potentiometer connected to an ESP8266 development board (such as NodeMCU or Wemos D1 Mini). As the potentiometer is turned, the servo ...

The board shown above includes a 3.3V 1A LDO, a genuine FT230x USB to UART adapter, a button to make the ESP8266 jump into its bootloader mode and a header where you can find all the soldered-on ...