Adafruit WiFi / 802.11 Development Tools Huzzah ESP8266 Breakout

Key Features:

• Difficult to use ESP8266 chip(80 MHz microcontroller with a full WiFi front-end) has been updated with PCB + extras
• Designed to make working with ESP8266 processor super easy and a lot of fun
• Has an "FTDI" pinout to plug in an FTDI or console cable and upload software and read/write debugging information via the UART.
• Pre-loaded with NodeMCU' s Lua interpreter (NodeMCU 0.9. 5 build 20150318 / Lua 5.1. 4)

Add Internet to your next project with an adorable, bite-sized WiFi microcontroller, at a price you like! The popular ESP8266 processor from Espressif with TCP/IP stack with DNS support has been very difficult to use. Most of the low cost modules are not breadboard friendly, don' t have an onboard 500mA 3.3V regulator or level shifting, and aren' t CE or FCC emitter certified.... UNTIL NOW!

The Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout was designed to make working with this chip super easy and a lot of fun. We took a certified module with an onboard antenna, and plenty of pins, and soldered it onto our designed breakout PCBs.

Adafruit added a Reset button, User button that can also put the chip into bootloading mode, Red LED you can blink, Level shifting on the UART and reset pin, Two diode-protected power inputs (USB cable & battery). It also has a 3.3V out, 500mA regulator (you' ll want to assume the ESP8266 can draw up to 250mA so budget accordingly).

Each module comes pre-loaded with NodeMCU' s Lua interpreter so you can run commands, and ' save' Lua programs directly to the module' s Flash using a USB-Serial converter cable.

Item Specifics
1 - Assembled & tested HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout board
1 - Stick of 0.1" header (for plugging into a breadboard)
Some soldering may be required.
USB-Serial Cable/FTDI Friend/FTDI cable (used to upload software to HUZZAH ESP8266) not included.