ESP8266 Community Forum

Noob question alert!

I'm on OSX and often get confused.
Am I right in thinking that I have to =
Remove the 328p from the arduino, connect the esp as shown and plug into Macbookpro, load the ino into the ide and then hit the upload button to send the program to the ESP?
does this work on the V12 esp?

Yes. To use an arduino to program the esp8266 you must remove the avr ship from the socket.
The arduino board is nice because it gives you the 3.3 v output and has 2 ground pins that come in handy for flashing.

If you have an esp-12 the flashing circuit will be a bit different

Flashing circuit should look like what is shown below.

The rx, tx and power pins on the arduino should be used.

Thanks
Just need to wait for mine to turn up now.

Mmiscool wrote:Git hub repository set up

RichardS was kind enough to pit the repository under the esp8266 community git hub.

https://github.com/esp8266/Basic

Going to be setting up a road map here soon and list of things to be implemented.

The 'Flasher' directory contains just an .EXE, no source for this?

You also mentioned, that you are building the different firmwares with a .BAT, but the 'ESP8266Basic' folder does not contain it.