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ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook

You're reading from   ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you master ESP8266 functionality

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288102
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER 2. Your First ESP8266 Projects 3. More ESP8266 Functions 4. Using MicroPython on the ESP8266 5. Cloud Data Monitoring 6. Interacting with Web Services 7. Machine to Machine Interactions Index

Controlling an LED

This recipe is going to look at how to control an LED using an ESP8266 board. This will basically involve changing the state of an LED either ON or OFF, using the ESP8266 board's GPIO pins. The exercise will enable you to understand how to use the digital output function on the ESP8266.

Getting ready

Connect your ESP8266 board to your computer via a USB cable and set up your Arduino IDE (refer back to Chapter 1, Configuring the ESP8266). Once that is done, you can proceed to make the other connections.

In this recipe, we will need the following components:

Start by mounting the LED onto the breadboard. Connect one end of the 220 Ω resistor to the positive leg of the LED (the positive leg of an LED is usually the taller one of the two legs). Connect the other end of the resistor to another rail of the breadboard and...

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