ESP8266 Thing Developpment Board w/ Headers Introduction

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Antenna-select jumper set to U.FL, and an external attached.
Then attach a U.FL WiFi antenna of your choice. Our adhesive antenna or a U.FL-to-RP-SMA adapter/2.4GHz Duck
Antenna combo are good options.
Hardware Setup
To use any of the Thing Dev Board’s GPIO pins, you’ll need to solder something to the board. If you’ve never soldered before, this is
a great time to start! These solder points are easy, through-hole pins, check out our How to Solder - Through-hole Soldering for help
getting started.
What, exactly, you solder to the board depends on how you’ll use it in your project. There are a variety of header options,
including stackable headers, straight male headers, or straight female headers.
Stackable Headers make it convenient to both breadboard the Thing Dev Board and jumper wire out of it.