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Hannu Vuolasaho <vuokkosetae@gmail.com> writes:
> I keep seeing nice hacks for this module. I haven't studied it enough
> to say anything useful about it but if I'm correct it is ARM with
> wifi.

It's not ARM, it's a MIPS-descended instruction set from Espressif.

> To me it seems good starting platform for network connected Forth computer.
> Has anyone done any investigation or any progress with it?

I doubt it, but there's a GCC port for it, so you could probably get any
of the C-based portable Forths running on it without too much trouble.

There's a similar but newer chip that's ARM-based:

  http://hackaday.com/2015/07/13/new-part-day-the-esp8266-killer/