Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE. Finall… ...

I’m not leveraging any of the WiFi features on this, but the compiled binary is 174,358 bytes and the Arduino IDE reports this board has a max capacity of 524,288 bytes.

Although there is already an Arduino Wi-Fi shield the WifiDuino device has been designed with a smaller form factor in mind, is more reasonably priced and has been created to be a lot easier to use.