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0 pointsjonaswi6y ago0 comments

Thanks for the tips! I will order a esp8266 and check it out.

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c226y ago

Unless you love soldering wires to tiny little smt pads I'd recommend looking for one of the "development boards" based on the 8266 (or as others have pointed out in this thread the bigger, faster, stronger, esp32). Not only will you get some through-hole connections to some subset of the pins, but you'll also get an onboard power supply and probably a usb port for programming so you can get right to cooking.

jonaswiOP6y ago· 4 in thread

Thanks! Will do some research and then try to order the right one.

ghawkins6y ago

There are no end of ESP32 dev boards but if you're new to working with MCUs I'd always recommend starting with something from Adafruit or Sparkfun. They just have way more documentation and support.

So I'd go with something like an Adafruit ESP32 Feather [0]. Sure it's super impressive that one can pick up a perfectly functional anonymous board on eBay for almost nothing but, for getting started, $20 for something from Adafruit will save you a lot of initial hassle.

MicroPython on ESP32 [1]. MicroPython specifically on the Adafruit ESP32 Feather [2].

[0] https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah32-esp32-feather?v... [1] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro.... [2] https://github.com/pvanallen/esp32-getstarted

ralphhughes6y ago

I can highly recommend the "Wemos D1 Mini" for starting with ESP8266 as it's tiny, cheap but can be plugged in to a PC to be programmed over USB and has pin headers and readily available shields for getting started quickly. I have one in each room of the house reporting back temperature\humidity to the pi that controls the central heating :-)

c226y ago

You're welcome! You might also be interested in MicroPython (if you write python) which runs pretty solid on esp32 and has a lot of batteries included. You can almost forget you're running on a micro.

jonaswiOP6y ago

Do you by chance have a link to a good development kit for the esp32? I checked and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of different components one can get.

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c226y ago

jonaswiOP6y ago· 4 in thread

Thanks! Will do some research and then try to order the right one.

ghawkins6y ago

There are no end of ESP32 dev boards but if you're new to working with MCUs I'd always recommend starting with something from Adafruit or Sparkfun. They just have way more documentation and support.

MicroPython on ESP32 [1]. MicroPython specifically on the Adafruit ESP32 Feather [2].

[0] https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah32-esp32-feather?v... [1] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro.... [2] https://github.com/pvanallen/esp32-getstarted

ralphhughes6y ago

c226y ago

jonaswiOP6y ago

Do you by chance have a link to a good development kit for the esp32? I checked and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of different components one can get.

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