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.

[jimeer] is using a ByPic for writing to the LCD and querying an inbox through an ESP8266 module. The ByPic is ... stuffing a PIC microcontroller in an Arduino form factor and giving it a BASIC ...

me@mybox:~/Arduino/myBlinky $ arduino-cli board listall ↪|grep esp8266 Generic ESP8266 Module esp8266:esp8266:generic (omitted long list) me@mybox:~/Arduino/myBlinky $ arduino-cli upload -b ...

Someone has invented a way to add Wi-Fi to a standard Arduino Uno, by proposing a module that drops into the DIL socket normally reserved for the ATmega328 – it will not work with Unos that have a ...