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Re:Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned ... by noonespecial on Sunday July 31, 2016 @09:53PM (#12199813)
In C, most esp incarnations can be used with the Arduino IDE.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/esp8266-thing-hookup-gu...

For Lua, nodeMCU's got your back.

http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html

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Re:Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned ... by hedgehog on Monday August 01, 2016 @03:07AM (#12200660)
This is a pretty good way to go. I wrote the software for a 40ish node lighting control network built with NodeMCU boards. The software was C++ via the Arduino IDE, it all worked out pretty well.
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