The ESP12F is a microcontroller board with an ESP8266 on board. It offers easy programming in Arduino, MicroPython, Lua and a lot more. It has an easy interface to connect to a WiFi or operate as an access point itself. The deep sleep mode has excellent energy saving possibilities and the max. 160MHz 32bit CPU offers a lot of computing power when needed. The ESP12F board is a newer and improved version of the ESP12E. It has a four layer PCB and better RF characteristics that the E version.

Pins SCLK/MISO/MOSI/CS0/GPIO9&10 are routed to the bottom side of the board for extra interfacing options. You can find the respective programmer in my shop under "ESP12 programmer board with pogo pins".

Heres a list of the features from the datasheet:

• 802.11 b/g/n
• Integrated low power 32bit ESP8266 microcontroller clocked at 80 MHz or 160 MHz
• Integrated 10bit ADC
• Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack
• Integrated TR switch, balun, LNA, power amplifier and matching network
• Integrated PLL, regulators, and power management units
• Supports antenna diversity
• WiFi 2.4 GHz, support WPA/WPA2
• Support STA/AP/STA+AP operation modes
• Support Smart Link Function for both Android and iOS devices
• SDIO 2.0, (H) SPI, UART, I2C, I2S, IRDA, PWM, GPIO
• STBC, 1x1 MIMO, 2x1 MIMO
• A-MPDU & A-MSDU aggregation and 0.4s guard interval
• Deep sleep power <10uA, Power down leakage current < 5uA
• Wake up and transmit packets in < 2ms
• Standby power consumption of < 1.0mW (DTIM3)5
• +20dBm output power in 802.11b mode
• Operating temperature range -40C ~ 125C