ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:10 pm #35663 I began to read a book some days ago, and this is simply awesome! Really great work, and, best of all, I seem to be able to understand most of it....

Just one question: why do you not mention the ESP-12F (or ESP-12E, btw), which breaks out more pins than the "standard" ESP-12 ?
Shouldn't this be best choice?

Hereunder is the pinout as shown by a Shenzen distributor

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- Fri Dec 04, 2015 8:10 pm #35681 @Pinhead,
Thanks for the kind words. That is a good thought, I'll add the ESP12E and ESP12F materials after research. The primary reason that they weren't already added was that after I got my hands on some NodeMCU devKits .... pretty much all tinkering with physical ESP modules (at least for me) ended. I have been so personally delighted with the NodeMCU devKit that I couldn't imagine going back to buying raw modules and/or mounting boards. I'll check and see if the pins on the ESP12E and ESP12F are also exposed on the NodeMCU devKit.

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- Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:07 pm #35811 Thanks for considering my suggestion, Kolban.

The reason why raw modules may still be useful is size.
A nodeMCU (or any other dev board) is mandatory for just that: development.
For some projects, you could be put under heavy space constraints, and therefore, using raw modules in the final design becomes also mandatory.
Since that ESP-12E breaks out more pins using the same form factor as the ESP-12, it becomes a better choice.

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:05 pm #36096 I just wanted to thank you for this AWESOME work....Really DEEPLY appreciate your effort in putting this together!!!!