The ESP8266 has been gaining quite some popularity in the Internet of Things space. It is affordable and tiny and has multiple programming options. You can use Lua or C code to program the chip and it can virtually do anything you can also do with an Arduino. Some folks in the ESP8266 community have been debating about how great it would be if there were a third programming options. The ESP8266 should be made compatible with Arduino code! Richard Sloan and Ivan Grokhotkov eventually stepped to the plate and did the work to add the ESP8266 as a board to the Arduino…
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