How to get Windows to recognize a NodeMCU (ESP8266) so you can flash it from Arduino or Cursor
The ESP8266 does not show up as a magic board. On Windows it is a serial port (COM). If the driver is missing or you pick the wrong COM, Arduino, PlatformIO, and Cursor cannot upload the program. This is what I had to install and configure on the PC so the NodeMCU would work.
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