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Project Details. For LuaLoader for ESP8266. A Windows serial interface with handy buttons to interface with the Lua interpreter on the ESP8266. For learning and development.
It’s only been a few months since the ESP8266 rolled out of some factory in China, and already the community is moving from simply getting custom firmware to work on the device to making the development tools easy to use. That’s huge – the barrier to entry is lowered, getting even more people on board with this very cool Internet of Things thing.While the majority of the community is settling on using the Lua interpreter firmware, there’s still the matter of getting this firmware uploaded to the ESP. Peter Jennings of Microchess fame to upload firmware to the ESP via a serial interface. There’s not much to it, but this will allow you to upload, set the WiFi credentials, toggle GPIO pins, and give you the ability to write a little bit of Lua in the same window.If you’re looking for something that isn’t designed exclusively for Windows, there’s an alternative firmware flasher. This flasher also connects the ESP8266 to a network and uploads firmware. It’s a stripped-down programmer without a serial terminal or the ability to toggle pins, but there are plans for making this programmer cross-platform.Posted in, Tagged, Post navigation.
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