About
In this post, I’ll show the ESP8266 module programmer I made. I need it for another project where I soldered the ESP module directly to the PCB instead of using it through the usual dev board with pins. This decreases the size of the ESP and the components needed, for example, once the programming is done, you don’t really need the USB to serial converter chip or the USB connector.
Build
You can 3D print one of the many sockets you can find online, for example, this or this. Then I just took one of #adAmazon Linkthese dev boards, desoldered the ESP module and wired it up to the socket instead.
Unfortunately, the socket is a bit too big to fit directly on top of the dev board, so I used a piece of protoboard to extend the dev board a bit.
Finally, you just insert your module and program it like you would a regular dev board.
These are the only needed connections for programming:
