ESP8266 breadboard adapter

Name: ESP8266 breadboard adapter
SKU: 3940
Price: 4.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.87 (17 reviews)

(17 Reviews)

Breadboard friendly adapter for ESP8266 Serial-to-WiFi module

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Breadboard friendly adapter for ESP8266 Serial-to-WiFi module

What is it? This is a breadboard adapter for the popular ESP-01 model of the ESP8266 serial-to-WiFi transceiver module. Why did you make it? ESP8266 is an inexpensive serial-to-wifi tranceiver chip …

What is it?

This is a breadboard adapter for the popular ESP-01 model of the ESP8266 serial-to-WiFi transceiver module.

Why did you make it?

ESP8266 is an inexpensive serial-to-wifi tranceiver chip that can be used to connect any microcontroller with a serial port to a WiFi network. Because of its simplicity and low cost, it is getting popular among hobbyists for building Internet of Things (IoT) applications. While there are varieties of breakout boards available for ESP8266 from the Chinese markets, the most popular one is the ESP-01 model that provides access to the power supply and I/O pins through a 2x4 male header. Drawbacks of this module are that the pin arrangements are not breadboard friendly and are not labeled, which makes it little inconvenient for rapid prototyping. So, I designed this breadboard adapter to make prototyping with the ESP-01 module easier. The adapter has a 2x4 female header to receive the ESP-01 module and provides easy access to those pins through two single row male headers (with clear pin names printed next to them) that are breadboard friendly. An additional power supply filter capacitor of 10uF is also provided on board.

Important Note: The ESP-01 module runs at 3.3V.

What will you get?

You will receive a breadboard adapter PCB, a 10uF tantalum capacitor and a 2x4 female header presoldered on the board. Two 1x4 male headers are also included but not soldered so as to give flexibility to the users to use a different type header if they want.

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.94)

Documentation: (4.82)

Shipping: (4.76)

Communication: (4.94)

Izzy | July 18, 2020

10/10 would recommend

Packaged wonderfully with excellent care and as an added bonus the package was a beautiful purple color :^) I would definitely purchase again!!!

Khaled | Aug. 1, 2016

ESP8266 breadboard adapter

Look nice item, useful and amazing.
as always, Tindie selling items are very useful and nice finished, and i really like.

thanks a lot.

Craig | Jan. 12, 2016

Excellent Quality

The Board is excellent quailty, it was shipped fast and arrived nicely packaged. Made it much easier to program multipule chips. The printing on the board is very readable. I was very satisifed with the purchase.

Aslak | Oct. 27, 2015

Just as described, solves the task very well.

Needed to have the ESP-01 connected to a breadboard for a workshop. This thing does that quite easy.

Ordering, payment and follow up was unproblematic. Shipping was fast.

Darrell | Oct. 6, 2015

Just the thing you need for the ESP8266

Searched quite awhile looking for a good way to use the ESP8266 with breadboard projects. I've seen posts where they say "just build one" but it's really not that easy to do it correctly. Then I found this product ... perfect, exactly what you need to easily mount the break out pins. Quality of product is excellent, well thought out and good materials used. Recommended!

Marcel | Sept. 10, 2015

Solid and nifty

Qualitiy is high. I mean, it is a solid, sturdy PCB. Letters on it is very good thinking! You need those to prevent mistakes and blowing yoru ESP's.

Rogerio | Sept. 2, 2015

Very nice

Very nice and usefull adapter for usign 8266.
It fits the protoboard perfectly and reduces the number of wires/jumpers and clutter.

Søren | Aug. 5, 2015

Sure its good, but didn't recieve it...

I'm sure your product is very good, but I just didn't recieve it ;-)

Hope that we can figure out what went wrong..

Sujay | July 15, 2015

great ESP8266 adapter. note the orientation of the board

A simple esp8266 breadboard adapter. Make sure you note the orientation of the esp8266 board with respect to the adapter.

Pierce | June 11, 2015

ESP8266 breadboard adapter works well with clear pin labels

In addition to making the EXP-01 breadboard compatible, the pin labels are very easy to read. So, no more looking back at documentation just to connect to GPIO or flash firmware. The power supply filter capacitor is nice to have as well. No documentation needed

Abraham | May 20, 2015

Amazing

This little board has one job and it is fantastic at doing it! I love it when engineers remain feature simple. It's perfect! Recommending to everyone I know!

Spencer | May 8, 2015

Works perfectly for breadboard prototyping

I've used a few of these to connect the ESP8266 to Arduino for super reliable communication. With the recent Arduino IDE compatibility, I've started making 3V native sensors using the ESP8266, this adapter, and DHT22s to log temp and humidity throughout my house. This just works great.

Daniel | May 4, 2015

Nature & Embedded Lab love simplicity - a great product!

A simple elegant solution - the intent was to make the ESP8266 easy to use and it does that well without inflicting fatal damage to your maker budget. A quality product and shipped quickly - what's not to like?

John | April 4, 2015

Easy to use and worked first time

The standard version of the ESP8266 is difficult to use with a Breadboard. This adapter makes the ESP8266 easy to use and it worked first time - what more can you ask?

Shipping was also exceptionally fast.

Michael | March 2, 2015

Great for prototyping

I bought two of these and use them both all the time. They're compact, simple. Having the bypass cap is good, and having the pinout silkscreen visible is the best feature.

David | Feb. 14, 2015

Makes working with the ESP8266 easy and simple!

The ESP8266 is just not breadboard friendly, forcing you to use female-to-male jumper wires for prototyping. This adapter solves that problem easily and neatly, and labels the pins so you don't have to double-check your wiring. It also allows the ESP8266 to hang off the end of the breadboard, giving you just a bit more room to work. And at $2.99 it's affordable given much of the popularity of the ESP8266 is because it provides serial-to-WiFi for such a low price (typically $5-$8).

Be advised that you can insert the ESP8266 into the adapter the wrong way around, so pause to confirm you can see the pins and pin labels on the adapter before applying power so you're sure you have the ESP8266 properly in place.

Peter | Jan. 13, 2015

Great helper!

Simple breadboard helper, but very useful! Makes life easier when trying to plug one of these modules into a breadboard - no need for extension wires to connect it to the breadboard so it doesn't short. Also, all the pins are labelled making wiring much easier!

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