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. Finall… ...

The Arduino IDE is pretty friendly, so it doesn’t try to install things like boards for all users, since that would require root. The board package you loaded winds up in your home directory ...

Today Arduino has announced the availability of the new Arduino IDE in the form of version 1.6.8, which is now available with updated cores for almost all supported platforms including : AVR 1.6. ...