ESP8266 Programmer
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For the software side of some ESP8266 development, I bought a cheap ESP01 to USB adapter from AliExpress, expecting a programming adapter. What turned up on my doorstep, however, was just a USB-UART adapter which wasn’t able to drive the reset and GPIO0 pins. Luckily, the missing circuitry could be added easily.
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