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Using ESP8266 Thing with arduino as the controller

By Saber
-  Sun May 07, 2017 8:38 am #194717
Hello everyone
Am new to the sparkfun community and i bought an ESP8266 Thing, but i don't have an FTDI breakout board and i want to use the arduino uno to program it like a normal esp8266, i don't want to use the controller in it.
Please pardon my english as it's not my native.
Ty :D .

Re: Using ESP8266 Thing with arduino as the controller

By Valen
-  Thu May 11, 2017 9:56 am #194805
Saber wrote:...and i want to use the arduino uno to program it like a normal esp8266, i don't want to use the controller in it.
Sorry, that's too unclear to me. I can interpret that with various meanings.

By controller, you mean the Arduino UNO microcontroller, or the ESP8266 microcontroller?

A 'normal esp8266' can function on it's own. It can be programmed by the Arduino IDE with 'Arduino code'. But the ESP8266 Thing (or the ESP-01 board) does not have a way to connect with USB on it's own. Should the UNO be used only to supply 3.3 volt and function as USB-to-serial bridge only? Allowing the ESP8266 to execute the 'Arduino code' on it's own.

Or must your UNO contain your program and order the ESP8266 in AT-commands as wifi network-interface?
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