First the successes, working with Gary and Zach, Gary and I were able to communicate across with our ESP8266 Wifi chips. I followed the directions from Martyn Curry's blog which looked at controlling the ESP8266 through the FTDI Serial Cable and setting up the ESP8266 to connect to the MIT GUEST Wifi. Originally there was an issue and we cannot connect to the MIT Secure wigi but are able to connect to the MIT GUEST - Follow along with Martyn Curry's blog posting on the issue : Link
All the commands were run in the Arduino IDE Serial Monitor. After setting up and showing that the connection was working within Arduino we followed the code and example from Neil's video posted on the class website : Link
This was a very difficult week, the help from Thras from CBA was a silverlining as he was the primary factor in helping us understand the wifi boards. Unfortuntaly time with the CBA assistants has been limited and the Architectura Lab is in desperate need of TA's that have the ability to assist in electronics. There were constant failings trying to load the ESP8266 with arduino code. A host of errors popped that that related the esptool memory. The problem is well documented online and many different solutions that some say work. Following the advice from this blog: Link did not result in any success and it was many many many hours of failures and errors.
I began the week thinking I would set up a BLE network that communicated between an input sensor to my motor boards for my final project - it seemed the boards were a bad batch as Darle's, Zach's and Mine all fried. Thras was helpful and showing us where the issues were with the multimeter to determine that the chip was not working.
