I’ve mostly followed the Getting Started in Arduino guide in Wemos.cc in this tutorial, and people who
prefer Lua/NodeMCU will want to check NodeMCU guide instead. There are various ways to configure the
Arduino IDE for WeMos D1 mini in the guide, but I’ve only used the recommended way: git.
The first step was to install and run Arduino 1.6.8. Since I’m using a computer running Ubuntu 14.04 64-
bit, I downloaded and installed Arduino 1.6.8 64-bit for Linux:
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tar xvf arduino-1.6.8-linux64.tar.xz
cd arduino-1.6.8
./arduino
Now get the sketchbook folder by going to File->Preferences
Note this folder as this is where we’ll install the board support, tools and examples, and exit Arduino
before starting the installation: