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So, I got really excited when I heard about the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266!

The little bugger is lying in front of me and I have a serial connection working (putty) and managed to make the onboard led blink!

So now what..? Where do I start? How do I program it? can I somehow upload a script? I've found plenty of samples (e.g. http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html), but I can't imagine I'm supposed to type these things in, a line at a time...

Sorry for the total NOOB'ness.

To answer my own question:

I've managed to do the first things I set out. I use the tool LuaLoader (http://benlo.com/esp8266/index.html#LuaLoader) to upload scripts and do tests.

This might be stating the obvious for many, but these are a few things I learned:

- commands fired from the console are excuted on the device, this does not mean code is saved in any way shape or form.
- to store code I had to save files to the device. you can do this by using commands on the console to open a file, add code to it and then close it, or by writing the files in your favourite code editor and uploading them to the device (I use luaLoader).

One place is to check out the Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment) https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

It supports the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 and lets you use the more "standardized" Arduino development GUI to build and upload code to the ESP board.

Lots of examples in there as well.

And be sure to check out Adafruit's tutorial for the ESP8266 & IDE...
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huz ... rduino-ide