WIFI Solutions: The above boards assume you can hook up a wired Ethernet connection.
#ESP8266 FIRMWARE 00160901 SOFTWARE#
Ethercard which is frankly awful and Arduino-UIP which emulates the standard Ethernet library but who’s client software is unreliable and either way you lose most of your RAM memory and again end up with less than half of your program space left. The Ethernet card will cost you between £10 and £30 depending where you buy it from.ĮN28J60 Board: These are the cheap end of the Arduino Ethernet spectrum coming in as cheap as £4 but with another price – the chip is fairly primitive meaning you need a lot more software in the Arduino to make it all work.
I will refer to Arduino here as that’s one of the cheapest and most popular ways to do embedded processing – in fact I use a chip called the ATMEGA1284 and build my own supporting hardware as this chip has more memory and more IO than the standard ATMEGA328 – but I’ll argue here from the perspective of the standard product.Įthernet Card: A typical Arduino installation of Arduino processor and standard Ethernet card will see at least half of your available FLASH memory used up to simply open a web page.
#ESP8266 FIRMWARE 00160901 CODE#
Anyone familiar with, for example Arduino will know that just to open a remote web page via the Internet will cost you most of your code space and almost all of your RAM memory. The ESP8266 is a VERY low-cost tiny WIFI module for embedded systems. For instant results (like maybe you don’t think the board works as I didn’t – check out my short video but do come back here. Thanks to a combination of newness, just plain WRONG information out there and documentation slowly and sometimes inaccurately being translated from Chinese – not to mention software bugs, I’ve spent several evenings getting myself annoyed at this new and interesting WIFI product from China, until last night when it finally all worked.įor anyone looking in here who is wondering what this is about – I’ll explain – for those looking to fix something – skip to Cheap WIFI. Getting this pesky ESP8266 working has been one of the most frustrating things I’ve done in recent months.