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.

recommend the Python-focused Thonny IDE. Thonny works like the Arduino IDE -- it can run the code, upload it directly to your board, and even serve as a serial monitor where you can print messages.

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As if it weren’t confusing enough in the Arduino world these days, now we’re going to have to deal with conflicting version numbers for the IDE. Yup, it’s been forked. Arduino LLC is ...