I am brand new to this world, and made a really stupid error. I uploaded my test sketch (blink) to the wrong location on the board. I had the mode selection set to ESP 8266 (upload sketch), and not the ATmega328 (upload sketch)
So my mode pins are currently in this position:
1------2-----3-----4------5----6----7-------8
OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON NOTUSED
So, unfortunately, I've wiped out the original code which was sitting on this location of the board. How do I correctly reset this board? I haven't written my code yet, so there is nothing to "lose" in resetting to factory default, but I cannot seem to see anything about how to do this. Or I'm missing something really basic.
Alternatively, I suppose I could simply upload the correct wifi code, but I do not know what that is supposed to be. This is day 0 of having this put together