![]() ![]() And if you already have URLs In there then just go ahead and add a comma and a space before adding the one for the ESP8266 family of boards. Go ahead and enter the URL included in the description of this video. There’s gon na be an ‘Additional Boards Manager, URL’s’ entry. Then we want to go through the file menu for Windows users and through the Preferences menu for Mac users. You can go ahead and open the Arduino IDE. Once the VCP drivers are installed, you are pretty much ready to go. I’m just gon na go ahead and replace that one. Once the application is unzipped, go ahead and drag it to your Applications. I’m gon na go ahead and unzip it., And that process should take a little bit. At the same time, we can go through the process of installing the Arduino Development Environment., So I’m gon na go back to my downloads, which is where I downloaded the file. This is again just installing the drivers that you’ll need in order to communicate with the development board., And it takes a few seconds to install. It’ll, ask you to enter your password as you are going through the process. ![]() If you want to read the software license agreement once you agree with it, then click ‘Agree’, if you agree. Then go to the mounted image and double click on the package file to go through the installation, process. Once you’ve downloaded the VCP drivers from the Silicon Labs website go ahead and double click On the file. ![]() I am running OSX, so I’m gon na scroll down and I’m gon na download the VCP drivers for Mac OSX., Depending on your operating system, you’ll need to download the corresponding drivers. The second piece of software that we gon na need is actually the drivers for talking to the IEC, that is on our development board, that does the USB to Serial UART translation.Īnd for that we’re gon na go to the link from silabs Silicon Labs included in The description of this video and for me again, I am running this on a Mac. I’m, just for now gon na click just download., And it should take a few a couple of minutes to download, depending on your internet connection. I’m gon na be using a Mac, so I’m gon na click on the link for Mac OSX., And then you know, I encourage You to contribute to the project. And we are gon na go to the download section., And this is in case you don’t – Have the Arduino IDE already installed., For those of you who are not familiar? Ide stands for Integrated Development Environment., So we are gon na look for the latest version, which is at the day of this recording 1.6.7. You can read more about it again in the links included in the description, but in order to get started with the Arduino IDE we’re gon na jump to the website. That’s a little bit similar to the AT commands.? You can actually use it a few different ways, but for the most part, you end up using the Lua programing language to have this sort of live interaction with the ESP8266 itself. We are not gon na be using that we are going to write custom firmware that will get uploaded to the ESP8266 and the ESP8266 is just going to run that custom firmware., The other one. And again, you can read a little bit more in the links included in the description., But then the ESP8266 device is just listening to AT commands and you tell it using an AT sequence: quotHey Connect to Wi Fiquot quotthis is my SSID etc.Įtc.quot. That micro controller will send these AT commands via serial aserial UART interface. This is where you hook up the ESP8266 to a micro controller typically. And we’re gon na be using today the Arduino IDE, but I wanted to mention the two more popular ones are using AT commands. There are a few different options that you can use for developing firmware. And a few other, like a voltage regulator, a few other components so that you can just plug it into your computer, use the Arduino Ide and just get started with developing software or firmware that would run on the ESP8266 itself. ![]() In order to make things even easier., We include a few additional components like a USB to Serial UART translator, chip by Silicon Labs. We’ve taken the ESP 12E module mounted it on our development board. The Materials that we’re gon na need for this tutorial are the development board itself., It’s optional, but nice to have a solderless breadboard and just a Micro B, USB cable. We’re gon na be using the Arduino IDE to write custom firmware that is gon na, be downloaded onto the board and execute. And today, we’re gon na, be talking about how to get started with the ESP8266 development board. ![]()
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