ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:55 am #24211 About boards like these:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Update-I ... 22888.html

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Wire ... 66449.html

I can't find information about the processor they have on them (other than the ESP8266 cpu), it doesn't look like they have an Atmel chip, can these boards be used just like a teensy or attiny85 board?
Can I upload programs written in C or is it strictly in node.js?

Also, are these chinese boards fine or they're like the fake teensy we see on chinese sites?

- Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:33 pm #24248 The processor on those boards is an ESP8266. The ATMega chip you might find works as a USB/Serial converter.

You can program it using Lua language or using Arduino IDE.

- Sat Jul 25, 2015 4:12 pm #24257

The processor on those boards is an ESP8266. The ATMega chip you might find works as a USB/Serial converter.

You can program it using Lua language or using Arduino IDE.

So I guess you can load programs through usb and these board can do basically the same things as a teensy only this has wifi.

Are these boards I mentioned any good?