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So I got a Pico and love the ease of use to get programming.
However I'm having trouble hooking it up to an ESP8266 (I'm using the Adafruit Huzzah breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/2471 which has some nice convenience stuff). Essentially whenever I connect the ESP8266 to wifi (nodeMCU or AT firmware) it resets.
I'm not even connecting direct to the Pico yet. I've just been using the Pico for power
Looking around for people with similar problems seems to suggest it might be power that's the problem. Any other problems people can think of that could cause this behaviour?
in the long run I want if possible to power directly from the Pico to keep things nice and compact, since ultimately I want to run off a LiPo battery. Since the Pico can do 250mA and that's said to be the max draw from the Adafruit board in theory it's okay - or is it?
Should I be thinking about trying to power via the FET? Or do I definitely need to cater for external power ? Or should the Pico be OK?
I also wondered if the Adafruit maybe took more power than a naked ESP8266 - can people confirm a naked ESP8266 runs well and stably off Pico power with the shim, and anyone got a good recommendation/link for the ESP8266 mini board? I'm willing to go the extra mile with the shim if it means getting to my goal!