There are two significant drawbacks to this card: It is compact (24.8 x 14.3 mm), the WIFI antenna is built in the board itself and has two GPIO pins that can be controlled according to programming. It is the most common module in the ESP8266 range. There are others, but today we’ll talk a little about them. All of them have the esp8266 microcontroller in common, but they vary in size, antenna availability, memory size and pin availability. Among the best known are the ESP-01, ESP-03, ESP-05, ESP-07, ESP-12E, ESP-12F and NodeMCU. Understanding the need to include an antenna for the WIFI, a memory IC in the SPI and making pins more accessible, several manufacturers started working on ore “friendly” ESP8266’s versions. With the idea of making the chip more accessible, several modules were developed that already include an antenna and a memory chip.
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The ESP8266Ex chip (this is its full name) needs an antenna to be connected to your antenna’s specific pins as well as a FLASH memory IC. WIFI is radio frequency! And how does it work without an antenna? The answer is: It doesn’t work!
Before explaining this, I want to draw your attention to another important point: The ESP8266 has a WIFI module inside a QFN package. Architecture with prediction of operation in energy savingĪt this point you may have noticed that I stated that the ESP8266 has a 512KB Flash memory, extendable up to 4MB, but then I said that the module only provides this memory per SPI.Main Peripherals: UART, GPIO, I2C, I2S, SDIO, PWM, ADC and SPI.Flash memory preview by SPI (512KB to 4MB).80MHz processor (can be expanded up to 160MHz).
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And for those of you who already program in 8Bit microcontrollers like the Atmega328 (one of the most common on Arduino) and struggle to build your code in the modic SRAM’s 2KB and Flash memory’s 32KB… The ESP8266 offers 32KB to RAM and 512KB to Flash Memory … expandable up to 4MB.ĭid I get your attention? So, let’s go to a summary of the specs, provided by the manufacturer itself: Today I’m going to introduce you to the ESP8266 microcontroller, from Espressif. What if I told you that already has a built-in WIFI microcontroller? And that it fits in the palm of your hand? For just 1 US dollar? Which increases complexity, circuit size and development cost. Distinct technological revolutions but with a common goal: To integrate equipment (digital or analog) to a computer network.Īnd to be part of this revolution, the developer goes out of its way to include wired ethernet modules or WIFI modules in its circuits. The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industry 4.0.
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