MySQL for the Internet of Things

ChApTEr 2 ■ hArdwArE for IoT SoluTIonS

You can program the ESP8266 with the Arduino integrated development environment by adding a
special add-on. See https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino for more details on how to configure the board
manager. Figure 2-12 shows the Sparkfun ESP8266 board.

The ESP8266 represents yet another small physical layout board that you can use to create nodes for
your IOT network (or single solution). I haven’t used mine in any real projects yet, but the power of the
module is appealing.

Figure 2-12. ESP8266 Thing