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.

This is the ESP8266 ... can plug straight into an Arduino or similar. Buy the chip in bulk, and you can get it for less than $2. The ESP8266 is more than just a WiFi dongle, though: it is a ...

In this project we’ll show you how to make a WiFi enabled, portable Weather Station using an ESP8266. The software, written by Daniel Eichhorn, uses the Wunderground API to pull weather data.