Looking for some direction

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Kyle Evans wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Kyle Evans wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW: devel/arduino16 does support the Arduino Due (ARM) using
>>> devel/arm-none-eabi-gcc -- I'm still working on figuring out newlib
>>> stuff to get the SAMD chips (Zero/MKR1000) working, but programming
>>> and all that is generally working for them.
>>
>>
>> Cool!  Any hope of ESP8266 support?  Thanks!
>
> Sure, their process seems pretty well documented  (putting it at [1],
> because I'll inevitably lose it and come back to this e-mail for
> reference). I don't currently have an ESP8266, though, so all I can
> personally verify is compilation and that the interface bits generally
> work -- not a whole lot goes wrong there, though.
>
> [1] https://github.com/esp8266/esp8266-wiki/wiki/Toolchain

Actually, I meant having ports of the ESP8266 toolchain so the Arduino 
version could be used from FreeBSD.  If you are interested in working on 
that, I'd be happy to send you a NodeMCU board.