Downloading and installing the new Arduino IDE for ESP8266

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By tlaswell
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ernst1024 wrote:
martinayotte wrote:Also, I never understood what pullups are? I explained it to myself a pullup is if you add 3,3V to a GPIO Pin? I have some 10k resistors here same question: how would I connect them to GPIO0/2 and RST?



Connecting a pin straight to VCC means the pin can pull a lot of current. All you want is a postive voltage, a resistor limits the amount of current it will pull but keep it at a positive voltage.