Wemos D1 ESP8266 Based Board

The wemos d1 is an Arduino Uno-like wifi board based on ESP-8266EX. You can use the Arduino IDE, NodeMCU and there are other development environments available

There is a USB connector, note that its a micro type and you can use this and also OTA for programming. I used the USB cable, it was the easiest way. The board can be pwered via the usb cable or you can plug in an external DC source, in the range of 7v to 24v. I recommend 9v.

The table below shows the pins of the wemos d1, the main difference between this and the Arduino UNO is that there is only one Analog input. All I/O pins are 3.3v, so some arduino shields will not work and obviously be careful what you connect to these pins.

Pin	Function	ESP-8266 Pin
D0	RX	GPIO3
D1	TX	GPIO1
D2	IO	GPIO16
D3(D15)	IO,SCL	GPIO5
D4(D14)	IO,SDA	GPIO4
D5(D13)	IO,SCK	GPIO14
D6(D12)	IO,MISO	GPIO12
D7(D11)	IO,MOSI	GPIO13
D8	IO,Pull-up	GPIO0
D9	IO,pull-up, BUILTIN_LED	GPIO2
D10	IO,pull-down,SS	GPIO15
A0	Analog Input	A0

Installing with Boards Manager

Starting with Arduino IDE 1.6.4, the software allows installation of third-party platform packages using Boards Manager. There are packages available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (32 and 64 bit).

Install Arduino 1.6.5 from the Arduino website. Start Arduino and open Preferences window. Enter http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into Additional Board Manager URLs field. You can add multiple URLs, separating them with commas. Open Boards Manager from Tools > Board menu and install esp8266 platform (and don’t forget to select your ESP8266 board from Tools > Board menu after installation).

Code

You can open the examples folder and upload the blink sketch, its copied below for reference

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void setup() { pinMode(BUILTIN_LED, OUTPUT); // Initialize the BUILTIN_LED pin as an output } // the loop function runs over and over again forever void loop() { digitalWrite(BUILTIN_LED, LOW); // Turn the LED on (Note that LOW is the voltage level // but actually the LED is on; this is because // it is acive low on the ESP-01) delay(1000); // Wait for a second digitalWrite(BUILTIN_LED, HIGH); // Turn the LED off by making the voltage HIGH delay(2000); // Wait for two seconds (to demonstrate the active low LED) }

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Links

https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

http://www.wemos.cc/wiki/doku.php?id=en:d1 Gikfun WeMos D1 WiFi UNO Based ESP8266 for Arduino IDE Compatible Development Boards EK1715