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Re: 4 GPIO ports of ESP8266-01 control 4(5) LEDs

PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:12 am
by HermannSW
> there are 5 wires to breadboard (1 for each led, and VCC) ??
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No, the 5th (black) line is GND, so "active high".
You made a good point, changing GND to VCC would make the external LEDs "active low".

The connector pins are (from back to front) TXD/GND/GPIO2/GPIO0/RXD/VCC(unused below), see here
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Hermann.