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week ten

networking with (almost) anything

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ESP 8266 -01

For this week's serial communication, I decided to give connecting to Wifi a go. This ended up being a wild goose chase, where I made a lot of PCBs that didn't work.

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The first PCB was based on the one frm the class site with some modifictions, modifications that ended up being ridiculus because there was a short and a bunch of the resistors where not even connected to anything, so I was back to the drawing board.

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The second set was a bit more logical, I had removed the volatage regulator because I moved it to the main PCB. However, where the previous PCB at least brought power to the ESP8266-01, this one could not accomplish even that.



By this point I was drowning in a non-functional PCB graveyard.



Finally, in rage and dispair I decided to just make the eample board from the website... maybe there is something I am missing. However, after having made the PCB I could not for the life of me figure out what 2 of the 6 out pins were meant to be connecting to, so I ran out of time before I got the chance to try it out.

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