I had questions about getting started with NodeMCU V1.0 ESP8266-E12 dev kit (one from banggood). This video is step by step guide for downloading IDE, firmware flasher, loading firmware, loading and running basic sketch to blink one onboard LED-blue (pin D0) and one external LED -red.
NOTE- Just plug USB cable between your PC and Nodemcu - no additional hardware modifications required for loading firmware and/or other sketches.
The code and other details are available on my blog http://theelectromania.blogspot.it/20...
Or on
GitHub https://github.com/Electromania/ESP82...
Programming IDE - esplorer available at http://esp8266.ru/esplorer/ or https://github.com/4refr0nt/ESPlorer
Firmware flasher to update firmware-
Firmware- https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-fl...
I have used - nodemcu_float_0.9.6-dev_20150704.bin firmware
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