Experiment No: 1

Installation of Node MCU Using Arduino IDE and Basic LED

Name of the Student: ____________________ _______ Div. & Roll No.______

Aim: To install Node MCU using Arduino IDE and to Blink an On-Board LED on Node MCU
Components Required:

1) Node MCU – 1
2) Micro USB Cable – 1
3) PC/Laptop – 1
4) Connecting Wires
5) Bread Board – 1

Software Required:

Arduino IDE

Theory:

Today, IOT applications are on the rise, and connecting objects are getting more and more
important. There are several ways to connect objects such as Wi-Fi protocol.
Node MCU is an open source platform based on ESP8266 which can connect objects and
let data transfer using the Wi-Fi protocol. In addition, by providing some of the most important
features of microcontrollers such as GPIO, PWM, ADC, and etc, it can solve many of the project’s
needs alone.

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 The general features of this board are as follows:

 Easy to use
 Programmability with Arduino IDE or IUA languages
 Available as an access point or station
 Practicable in Event-driven API applications
 Having an internal antenna
 Containing 13 GPIO pins, 10 PWM channels, I2C, SPI, ADC, UART, and 1-Wire

ESP8266 Specifications:
 11 b/g/n protocol
 Wi-Fi Direct (P2P), soft-AP
 Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack
 Built-in low-power 32-bit CPU
 SDIO 2.0, SPI, UART

ESP 8266 Pin Out:

Pin Description:

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Power Pin: There are four power pins viz. one VIN pin & three 3.3V pins. The VIN pin can be
used to directly supply the ESP8266 and its peripherals, if you have a regulated 5V voltage
source. The 3.3V pins are the output of an on-board voltage regulator. These pins can be used to
supply power to external components

GND: GND is a ground pin of ESP8266 Node MCU development board.

I2C Pins: I2C Pins are used to hook up all sorts of I2C sensors and peripherals in your project.
Both I2C Master and I2C Slave are supported. I2C interface functionality can be realized
programmatically, and the clock frequency is 100 kHz at a maximum. It should be noted that I2C
clock frequency should be higher than the slowest clock frequency of the slave device

GPIO Pins: ESP8266 Node MCU has 17 GPIO pins which can be assigned to various functions
such as I2C, I2S, UART, PWM, IR Remote Control, LED Light and Button programmatically.
Each digital enabled GPIO can be configured to internal pull-up or pull-down, or set to high
impedance. When configured as an input, it can also be set to edge-trigger or level-trigger to
generate CPU interrupts.

ADC Channel: The Node MCU is embedded with a 10-bit precision SAR ADC. The two
functions can be implemented using ADC viz. Testing power supply voltage of VDD3P3 pin and
testing input voltage of TOUT pin. However, they cannot be implemented at the same time.

UART Pins: ESP8266 Node MCU has 2 UART interfaces, i.e. UART0 and UART1, which
provide asynchronous communication (RS232 and RS485), and can communicate at up to 4.5
Mbps. UART0 (TXD0, RXD0, RST0 & CTS0 pins) can be used for communication. It supports
fluid control. However, UART1 (TXD1 pin) features only data transmit signal so, it is usually used
for printing log.

SPI Pins: ESP8266 features two SPIs (SPI and HSPI) in slave and master modes. These SPIs also
support the following general-purpose SPI features:
 4 timing modes of the SPI format transfer.
 Up to 80 MHz and the divided clocks of 80 MHz.
 Up to 64-Byte FIFO.

SDIO Pins: ESP8266 features Secure Digital Input/output Interface (SDIO) which is used to
directly interface SD cards. 4-bit 25 MHz SDIO v1.1 and 4-bit 50 MHz SDIO v2.0 are supported

PWM Pins: The board has 4 channels of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). The PWM output can
be implemented programmatically and used for driving digital motors and LEDs. PWM frequency
range is adjustable from 1000 μs to 10000 μs, i.e., between 100 Hz and 1 kHz.

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Control Pins: Control Pins are used to control ESP8266. These pins include Chip Enable pin
(EN), Reset pin (RST) and WAKE pin. EN pin – The ESP8266 chip is enabled when EN pin is
pulled HIGH. When pulled LOW the chip works at minimum power. RST pin – RST pin is used
to reset the ESP8266 chip. WAKE pin – Wake pin is used to wake the chip from deep-sleep.

Procedure:

1. Installing ESP8266 Board in Arduino IDE:

The ESP8266 community created an add-on for the Arduino IDE that allows you to program the
ESP8266 using the Arduino IDE and its programming language.

Step 1: Visit arduino.cc/en/Main/Software for downloading the latest version of Arduino IDE
software [Arduino IDE 1.8.16]

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Step 2: Click on appropriate download link as per the operating system installed on your PC /
laptop

Step 3: Download and install it on your PC / Laptop

Step 4: Install ESP 8266 Add on in Arduino IDE. Open Arduino IDE ----> File ----> Preferences

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Step 5: Enter http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into the
“Additional Boards Manager URLs” field as shown in the figure below. Then, click the “OK”
button

Step 6: Open the Boards Manager. Go to Tools---- > Board---- > Boards Manager…

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Step 7: Search for ESP8266 and press install button for the ESP8266 by ESP8266 Community

Step 8: Go to Tools ----> Board ----> ESP 8266 Boards (3.0.2) ----> Select Node MCU 0.9(ESP-
12 module)

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Step 9: Go to Tools ----> Port -----> Select Serial Port COM3

2. Testing the Installation [Basic LED Blinking]:

On-board LED

Most of the ESP8266 development boards have two built-in LEDs. These LEDs are usually
connected to GPIO D0 and D4.

Step 1: Connect Node MCU to PC / Laptop with the help of micro USB cable

Step 2: Open new Sketch, Go to file ----> New

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Step 3: Write following code in new sketch

#define LED_BUILTIN D4

// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board

void setup() {

pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT); // initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.

// the loop function runs over and over again forever

void loop() {

digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)

delay(1000); // wait for a second

digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW

delay(1000); // wait for a second

Step 4: Save the new sketch by appropriate name in a folder on your PC / Laptop

Step 5: Upload the sketch on Node MCU. Go to Sketch ----> Upload

Step 6: Observe the output [Blinking LED]

Practice:

1. Change the on and off time of LED

Conclusion:

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