Friday, August 25, 2017

Getting started with the D1 Mini ESP8266

This is how to get started with the D1 Mini NodeMcu 4M Bytes Lua WIFI Development Board ESP8266 ESP-12F

Firstly - you have to buy one!
I purchased mine from here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N3P763C

Once you've acquired this little wafer of awesome you will want to get ahold of the Arduino IDE from here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

You will also need to download and install the driver for this thing. I found the following drivers:
After installing both of these you will need to configure the IDE to recognize this board. In the IDE preferences add this url to the "Additional Boards Manager URLs":  http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json


Now in the "Board Manager" you should be able to search for the "esp8266" generic module and install the latest version.


Next select the appropriate port (for me, the driver added this weird port):





Then change the "Reset Method" to "nodemcu":


Now you should be able to upload a simple script to the board:


If you have no errors and the board plugged into your computer you should see a 1-second flashing LED on your board!

Happy Makering!

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