ESP8266 The ESP8266 is a microcontroller by Espressif. Properties Property Value Nominal Voltage 3.3 V CPU 32 bit CPU Connectivity 2.4 GHz Wifi, Bluetooth ADC 1 10-bit ADC with max 1.0 Volt Pins GPIO Pins, I2C, SPI, UART Boards NodeMCU 1.0 The NodeMCU 1.0 is a popular development board for working with the ESP8266 (Often with the variant ESP-12E). It has the following properties: A USB interface (usual Micro USB) USB-To-UART Chip (CH340 or CP2102) Voltage regulator for 3.3 V Reset and Flash button Breadboard friendly pins 4MB Flash memory