Now Halloween is over, I get to do a range test on it. Setup a strip + controller at the other side of the house, and booted it up. It worked! about 30 metres though the house to the AP that's buried in the back.

I'd had a second demo board made up but it worked strangely, turned out i'd flipped Vin and Vout on the LD1117 so yeah oops there. No ill effects though, so i'd basically been running the ESP8266 at 5V on that board, i'm sure it wouldn't have lasted.

Next changes are adding reset control and the two GPIO's to the PSOC on the custom PCB and get it sent out for manufacturing.

So i just looked at my other board, which has been constantly running since i started this project. I swapped the Vin and Vout of it too.. So of course who knows who long the ESP8266 would last now or if damage has been done that will take a while to show up, shortened the life of it etc, but it has been running full on at 5V power for at least two weeks continuously.