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Hi

I am trying to build a simple system where I use an Arduino as the base - to which I connect a 3 axiz accelerometer, and the ESP8266. I want the unit to hit a website whenever the accelerometer has a reading above a certain value on any of the axis.

I saw some posts where it looks like an Arduino sketch is loaded/flashed directly to the ESP module.

Does that mean that I could use the GPIO's on the ESP module to directly read from the output pins of the accelerometer and thereby reduce my physical and power footprints?

In short ... yes. An ESP8266 can run applications and can sense inputs on GPIO pins as well as drive GPIO outputs.

Thank you, that sounds very interesting, sicne I have another ESP module that has 14 GPIO's.

Does the "long" version of this entail that the application has to be in a specific language - ie, would I be able to simply flash an Arduino sketch?

would I be able to simply flash an Arduino sketch?

Yes, you just have to install the core files found here:
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino