Hello, I recently started with the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 Breakout board to add Wi-Fi to my project and use AT commands. After many hours of reading and trial-and-error, i managed to flash a recent AT firmware and then got some promising results from PuTTY. All seemed fine, until i connected it to…

HUZZAH ESP8266 Breakout overheating quickly

tasmod April 16, 2019, 8:40am 2

Sounds very much like it's fried the board.

Unfortunately without your connection diagram it's hard to say what has happened.

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