In this tutorial I will be showing how I made this customized breadboard friendly adapter for ESP8266-01 module with proper voltage regulation and features that enable the flash mode of the ESP.I have made this module particularly to enable microcontrollers internet functionality using this module, thus I did not create the breakout pins for GPIO pins. This module comes in handy when trying to make an IoT project or update firmware on the ESP board. You can easily power this with 5V without worrying about destroying your ESP board as it already contains a voltage regulator. Filter capacitors are also added in order to stabilize the power input to the ESP. So let us proceed to make this adapter.
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