ESP8266 12 / 7 - How to solder breakout board and flash with Arduino IDE

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 subscribe Have fun!

Channel: RandomHacks

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Keywords: esp8266, esp-12, esp-07, esp-7, arduino, esp8266 arduino ide, solder, solder breakout board on esp8266, wifi, wifi board, esp-12e, processing, c++, electronics, project, getting started, how to, tutorial, iot, internet of things, banggood, guide

Id: O2SSyfP6OM0

Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Wed May 18 2016