ESP8266 Community Forum

Electrodragon.com recently came out with a new version of their esp-07/12 breakout board. Mine arrived today and I'm quite pleased with it. It's 0.2" narrower than their previous version so, on a standard breadboard there's one row of connections available on either side of the board, much more convenient than the previous version in which all the the connection needed to be made under the board and for added convenience, I used extra long header pins so that I have a complete set of pins on top available for connection too. Anyways, thumbs up for the people at electrodragon for coming out with an inexpensive and well thought out board.

What about the ESP-201. Isn't that both easier an cheaper?

I don't have an ESP-201 in my possession so I can really say however there are a couple of minor things I have seen that on the esp-201 that I'm not crazy about, the header pins for the serial connection coming out the bottom of the board, not very breadboard friendly unless you modify it, another thing (this is nitpicking) is the pin labels are on the bottom side of the board, it would have been much more convenient to have them on the topside, especially since it seems like there's plenty of space for them.

As for the board I bought, soldering everything in place on the board was pretty easy, it took less then 5 minutes. The cost including the ESP-07 was $4.60 plus shipping and in my case it was part of a larger order and adding the board to my order didn't increase the shipping cost.