In this video, I’m going to be flashing an ESP8266 NodeMCU development board with Espruino (Javascript for microcontrollers).
Frightanic article - "Comparison of ESP8266 NodeMCU development boards": https://frightanic.com/iot/comparison...
Driver: https://www.silabs.com/products/devel...
pyserial: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial
esptool: https://github.com/espressif/esptool
Espruino Firmware for the 8266: http://www.espruino.com/binaries/trav...
Dev Board Pinout: https://dziadalnfpolx.cloudfront.net/...
Other helpful links:
http://www.espruino.com/EspruinoESP8266
http://www.espruino.com/ESP8266_Flashing
Links to Buy the ESP8266 Dev Board (Affiliate):
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ifK50c
Ebay: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53...