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… ...

Now, with a serial bootloader and an ESP8266 in Wifi-to-serial bridge mode, you can reflash your microcontroller wirelessly, and then telnet in to interact with and debug the system remotely.

Designed to be easy-to-use the Wi-Fi repeater is based on an ESP8266-07S WiFi module at 80Mhz and has this week launched via Kickstarter and is available to back with earlybird pledges available ...