
That's about it for this Instructable, not much to it but when I was starting out with Arduino it was all a bit confusing, a lot of it still is if I'm honest, its a learning curve as it is with everything. Arduino Esp8266 Board Manager Set Up: For an up and coming project Im going to be using a esp8266 board, now to use this board you have to add additional boards within the IDE using boards manager and add a json library as well.

If it was the Wemos D1 you were using in a sketch then click on that, there is a lot of text with the Wemos but we don't need to change anything apart from clicking on the Port with a Micro USB Cable plugged in of course:)įrom here on you should be able to compile your sketch and then upload. So with this part done we can now go back to the Ide and clicking on the Tools tab, Hovering the mouse over the Board "Arduino Yun" you will now see not only the Arduino AVR boards but below this there are now all the esp8266 boards listed.įor the Chinese clone Wemos D1 boards its usually the Lolin(Wemos)D1 R2 & Mini which is the only board I've really used with the NTP Time Word clocks etc. Open the Device Manager window by right-clicking the Windows 10 start button in the lower left of. The driver configures the Arduino as a virtual COM port which can be seen in the Device Manager. When you plug an Arduino board into a Windows 10 computer, a driver should automatically be installed for it.
Arduino manager install#
Looking along the top part of this Type should be All and to the right of this is the filter search box where you will type in esp this will bring up the esp8266 community platform, clicking on Install will load the latest version, you can update and uninstall from here as well if you ever need to. Installing Arduino Drivers in Windows 10. click on this and this opens up the Boards manager Interface, it sometimes takes time to add the platforms.

Opening the Tools Tab, where it says Board "Arduino Yun" Highlighting this and looking to the right of this shows the AVR boards, above this it says Boards Manager.
