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====== Overview ======


The ESP8266 is a low cost Wifi enabled chip that implements the IEEE 802.11 protocol and can communicate with a microcontroller over a serial interface.

===== Features =====

  * Supports 802.11 b/g/n Wifi, with WPA and WPA2
  * 96kb program RAM
  * 64kb data RAM
  * 512kb flash storage
  * runs at 80Mhz
  * Integrated TCP stack

===== Documentation links =====

  * **The** canonical [[https://nurdspace.nl/ESP8266|  place to go ]] if you're interested in hacking the inner guts of the ESP8266
  * [[http://hackaday.com/2015/03/18/how-to-directly-program-an-inexpensive-esp8266-wifi-module/|Hack a day writeup on how to program the device itself]]
  * [[https://github.com/esp8266/esp8266-wiki/wiki|Very good Wiki page on github about this chip]]

===== Support Libraries an Firmware Links =====

  * [[https://github.com/cnlohr/ws2812esp8266 | WS2812 (Aka 'Neopixel') Driver firmware]]

===== Really cool projects using the ESP 8266 ====

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