For someone wanting to tinker but not being great at electronics project, what is the easiest way to:
- Play with the chip (testing interfaces, deploying code etc)
- "Deploy" it (ie. connect it to ground power, via 230v-USB connector or similar?
Onthe software side, the Arduino programming environment now supports the ESP8266. This makes it very easy to start playing.
One hint - to program, reboot with the programming pin (GPIO0) grounded, but take it back to 3.3V before you start programming. That took me a couple of hours to figure out.