hey guys in this video I will show you
how to solder the esp8266 12 to a
breakout board and how to connect and
flash it using two Arduino IDE okay so
this is flux it's not mandatory to use
flux but it just makes the job a lot
easier so I would definitely recommend
it so I'm just spreading a little bit of
flux all over the pins on the breakout
board
now I will just solder two pins on each
side I mean one on each side just to
hold the board in so it doesn't move
while soldering the other pins I have a
lot of projects in mind for this board
so if you're interested please subscribe
the first video will probably be about
controlling a five channel solid state
relay over the web so that will be fun I
guess
as you can see I'm just basically touching
the pad now doing the same on the other
side it's just to hold the board in
really just so it doesn't move while soldering the other pins
okay now to solder just touch the pin
and add a little bit of solder touch the
pin and add a little bit of solder and
so on
as you can see it's not as hard as many
people think I'm actually quite shaky
and I still can do it so it's quite
simple actually
here I'm just retouching each pin just to
make it a little bit more appealing now
we will basically do the same
thing with the pin headers by the way I
bought this breakout board on Aliexpress
for 20 cents with free shipping so I
definitely recommend buying it
it's a lot easier to
to work with the board then to
solder directly into it
here we go again with the flux
make sure you always start with a little
bit of solder on the soldering iron tip
as it makes the heat transfer a lot easier
now it is basically the same thing just touch
it and add a little bit of solar
I'm just speeding these clips up so this
video doesn't get boring
so as you can see everything is soldered so we
are ready to start connecting it to the
to the breadboard if you are
using a breadboard power supply just
like this make sure you have it set to
the 3.3 volts with a little jumper or
you will end up killing the esp8266
so be cautious about this as you can see
it doesn't quite work with one
breadboard this with this particular
breadboard so I will be using two
these are jumper cables so the
connections we are going to make are
VCC to 3.3 volts
ground to ground
CH_PD to 3.3 volts
gpio 15 to ground and GPIO 0 also to
ground these two GPIO pins have to be
connected to ground every time you want to program the chip so every
time you want to flash it these two have to
be connected to ground otherwise you can
disconnect them okay here's the USB to serial
converter I'm connecting the ground
to the ground of the chip the TX goes to
the Rx and the RX to the TX and that's it
okay so now we open the Arduino IDE I
will have all the links in the
description you go to file preferences
and we paste this link which is also in
the description click OK and go to tools
board, board manager you have to wait a little bit
now we search for esp8266 and click on
the install button I already installed it
now we go to tools again board and
select this board ESP12E everything
else should be configured already
you just need to select the COM port if
your computer's has more than one port and yeah
that's it so this is an example
it's included with the our Arduino IDE just
go to esp8266 web server, HelloServer
that's it so if you configure it with
your network SSID and password you get a
web server that says hello from esp8266
every time you access it
so I'm just putting my password now
click on the upload button keep in mind
that the board is powered on and the
GPIO pins 15 and 0 are connected to
ground you can see the board flashing
which means it's flashing the code
now if you go to tools Serial monitor
you can disconnect the GPIO pins now
and here you see the IP address so you
can access it so just type it in your
browser and there it is hello from
esp8266 that's all so if you liked the
video please leave me a like and
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Have fun!
