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barn53 / CoinThing

a coin ticker display
MIT License
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Newbie problems ! :) #13

Closed alpozdemir closed 2 years ago

alpozdemir commented 2 years ago

Hi there,

I want to do a CoinThing too..

I have a lot of questions... :)

Which specific revision/model of 8266 do you use?(there are so many) Which development environment or IDE should I use? Arduino Defaul IDE is enough?

barn53 commented 2 years ago

Hi, you can use any of the ESP8266 modules out there, as long as there are all needed GPIO pins broken out. You can start e.g. with a NodeMCU Dev Board like this: http://www.ai-thinker.com/pro_view-67.html

The project itself uses a custom made PCB. Here is the schematics: image

As development environment I would not recommend Arduino IDE. The best choice in my opinion is Visual Studio Code with the PlatformIO extension. There is already a setting for this IDE here in the repository: platformio.ini

barn53 commented 2 years ago

Sorry, wrong schematics... here comes the correct one: image