A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266

Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by zippox on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:03AM (#40153630)

I always see these low prices (<$5) on articles and comments but this doesn't seem the be the case for the boards people actually recommend. Are people buying on aliexpress or other cheap alternatives?

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by danieldk on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:44AM (#40153865)

Wemos D1 Mini is about 5 Euro from many local sellers here. It’s a great little board (if you have the official ones, don’t know about clones).

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by smilespray on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:57AM (#40153942)

If you liked the D1 Mini, you can now get the excellent S2 Mini with an ESP32 S2 microcontroller for $2.50 on eBay. I just ordered a 10-pack for my HomeKit projects.

https://www.wemos.cc/en/latest/s2/s2_mini.html

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by kube-system on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:29AM (#40153778)

$1.10 US on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/314750044526

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by otherme123 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:59AM (#40153951)

To get less than 5€ you usually have to buy more than one, like here: https://www.az-delivery.de/products/nodemcu-lua-amica-v2-mod....

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by 3D30497420 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:10AM (#40154421)

As an aside, I've bought a bunch of AZ-Delivery products and have been very happy with them.

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:11AM (#40153681)

Aliexpress is probably cheaper, but TBH I just order them on Amazon. If you buy a bundle of like 6 then the unit cost gets around... I would have said $6, but I might be misremembering. Of course, for the number I've used, ~$4 and ~$6 are equivalent so YMMV.

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by regularfry on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:17AM (#40154454)

Right now I can see knock-off D1 mini clones on Amazon for about £2.40 each. Real Wemos boards are about £4 each in bulk.

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by mft_ on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:38AM (#40154983)

I’ve got three from AliExpress that were all €2-3 (I pushed the boat out for a USB-C model most recently) and they’re all working perfectly so far.

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 by otherme123 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:58AM (#40207665)

You surely won't read this, but this is my best shot: as of today, there's an offer at AZ-delivery (they use to have offers like this every couple of months) that allows you to buy three 8266 for 7€ (2.40€ a piece), one for 3.79€. Sadly, the offer don't extend to the pack of five, that is 20€ (still, 4€ a piece!)

https://www.az-delivery.de/en/products/nodemcu-lua-lolin-v3-...

I know I sound like a salesman, but if you subscribe to their newsletter, you'll get that kind of offers all the time.

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