Using adafruit-ampy for the ESP8266
I recently wrote a blog post about how to work with MicroPython on the ESP8266. In that post, I used a tool named webrepl to connect to the board and upload the Python code over the air.
That could be a feasible workflow once the ESP8266 is already in a WiFi we can access from our laptop, but sometimes that is not the case. And, of course, the first time we need to connect the board to the WiFi, which needs to be done over the serial connection.
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