• Espressif Board Forums – Espressif, the manufacturers of the ESP8266, have a forum
of their own. You can sometimes find updated software development kit downloads, or
other helpful links here.
• Espressif GitHub Repos – Espressif is also somewhat active on GitHub. They host a
couple versions of the SDK here.
The ESP8266 Thing is open source hardware! If you need, or just want to look at, the PCB
design files, you can find them in our ESP8266 Thing GitHub repository.
Going Further
Need a little project inspiration, now that you’ve got your ESP8266 Thing up-and-running?
Maybe some of these related SparkFun tutorials will help spur some ideas:
With its deep sleep ability, the Thing is a great foundation for a WiFi-based weather station, or
a friendly, huggable, interactive plushy.
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Weather Station
Wirelessly
Connected to
Wunderground
Build your own open
source, official
Wunderground weather
station that updates every
10 seconds over Wifi via
an Electric Imp.
Are You Okay?
Widget
Use an Electric Imp and
accelerometer to create an
"Are You OK" widget. A
cozy piece of technology
your friend or loved one
can nudge to let you know
they're OK from half-a-
world away.
Pushing Data to
Data.SparkFun.com
A grab bag of examples to
show off the variety of
routes your data can take
on its way to a
Data.SparkFun.com
stream.
Using AT&T's M2X
With the CC3000
A set of tutorials and
examples to show how to
connect an Arduino and
CC3000 to AT&T's M2X
data streams. We show
how to post, fetch, and
delete data. The final
lesson is controlling an
LED from an M2X
stream.
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