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While the TI solution costs about $10 if you buy several thousand of them, the ESP8266 costs less than $7 for an individual board that can plug straight into an Arduino or similar.

In the Arduino IDE, I set the board type to “Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266” and the COM port to COM13, which is my USB to serial adapter board. Then, I uploaded the sketch, which also compiles the code.

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. ...