{"id":354,"date":"2018-01-29T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T02:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-02-03T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T19:09:09","slug":"hello-world-with-a-wemos-d1-esp8266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/hello-world-with-a-wemos-d1-esp8266","title":{"rendered":"“Hello World” with a WeMos D1 ESP8266"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it might be fun to play around with programmable microcontrollers, so I bought some to play with. One of the most popular chips right now is the ESP8266 which I first saw pop up on Hack-a-day in 2014<\/a>. I had to search backwards through 47 pages of blog posts that have been made in the meantime — that might give you a sense of its popularity.<\/p>\n

I played around with PIC16\/PIC18s in the early 2000s but never actually made anything, but the interest has been there. It’s also been my long time desire to create an E-ink weather display (once again thanks to an old Hack-a-day post<\/a>, this one from 2012. That’s how far behind on projects I am). Recently I noticed some inexpensive E-ink development boards on Aliexpress and decided to jump into a less shallow end of the pool. I had also been following the ESP8266 for Arduino<\/a> repo on Github, so I vaguely knew where to begin.<\/p>\n\n\t\t