Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE.

It used to be that Web browsing was simple ... you’ll use the usual language you use on the ESP8266 — [Acrobotic] uses C++ in the Arduino IDE. On the browser side you’ll use JavaScript ...

Following on from the announcement by Arduino that the new Arduino Create web based IDE is progressing as planned and is now available as hourly builds. Arduino has also this week announced the ...