The latest version of Arduino’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE), version 2.3.3, has just been released, and it brings a host of new features designed to make coding more collaborative ...

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.

The official Arduino IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn’t very pretty ...