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Bear in mind that the ESP8266 is nowhere near as polished or easy to get going with as the Spark Core. The toolchain to build firmware on your own PC and load it on is much more experimental and buggy for ESP8266, and because it doesn't have an equivalent of their cloud IDE, that's the only way you can get your code running on it.


That's where the community support comes in handy... http://www.esp8266.com/ ...note that there's even a subforum for compiler setup.

I thought this was interesting too; using an ESP8266 to wirelessly program an Arduino... http://hackaday.com/2014/11/13/programming-an-arduino-over-w...


Given that it is less than $5 compared to $20 there is a world of difference in price.




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