ESP8266 Community Forum

This just arrived yesterday.

Am still reading the specs https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoard101 and checking out the schematic https://www.arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/Arduino101Schematic.pdf.
Has Bluetooth but no WiFi. Should be easy to use the serial port to get to an ESP8266 using the AT commands at the least.

Cheers,
DrG

You didn't really need the Arduino board for the ESP..
You only Need the Arduino SW and ESP and UsbRxTx converter and level shifter and 3.3 volt supply...
If you going to use the SW a lot , I'm sure they would appreciate a donation...

xtal wrote:You didn't really need the Arduino board for the ESP..
You only Need the Arduino SW and ESP and UsbRxTx converter and level shifter and 3.3 volt supply...
If you going to use the SW a lot , I'm sure they would appreciate a donation...

Thanks much for your response and the advice. I'm not sure you completely understood the post. No, you do not need an Arduino board to use the ESP8266 - that is very clear. The board pictured is brand new. It is quite different from other Arduino boards in that it is a collaboration with Intel and uses the Curie chip - the first board to do so as far as I know. What I found particularly interesting is that while they put Bluetooth on the board, they did not put any WiFi like an ESP8266.

No worries - the post was bit off-topic.

Cheers,

DrG