SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev Development Board

Code name: ESP8266_THING_DEV

SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev development board is based on esp8266 microcontroller and uses Xtensa LX106 architecture. This board has a maximum CPU frequency of 160 MHz and a flash size of 4 MB.

About SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev

Development version of the Thing board with USB and debug access - suited for more complex projects.

Technical Specifications

πŸ›°οΈ Connectivity

WiFi 802.11 b/g/n (2.4 GHz)
Bluetooth -
BLE -

🧠 Microcontroller

Model esp8266
Clock Speed 160 MHz
Flash Size 4 MB
Architecture Xtensa LX106

SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev Pinout

SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev Pins Mapping Arduino IDE

Below you can find the SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev pinout. This development board provides digital IO pins, out of which can be used as external interrupt pins and as analog input pins .

PinAnalogTouchPWMOther
5LED_BUILTIN
PIN_WIRE_SDASDA
PIN_WIRE_SCLSCL
Analog Analog input pins
Touch Touch pins
Function Function pins
RX / TX Receive/Transmit
LED_BUILTIN Built-in LED
PWM Pulse-Width Modulation

Default Tools

Uploader toolesptool
Flash modedio
Maximum data size
80 Kb
(81920 B)

The SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev development board by default uses esptool uploader tool, network uploader tool for Over-the-air (OTA) uploads and bootloader tool. The bootloader starts at address "". Flash mode and boot mode for SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev development board by default is dio and respectively.