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 # opencoil-paracity
 
+### Prerequisites
+
+This guide assumes you have a 4MB ESP12F microcontroller and use Arduino IDE.
+
+* Board Manager: You will need to add the support for this board to your IDE (Arduino in this case), see: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
+* SPIFFS: You will need to add SPIFFS file upload support to Arduino if you want to upload files to the ESP12F, see: https://github.com/esp8266/arduino-esp8266fs-plugin
+
+
+
 ### Uploading Code
 For ESP12F use the following settings in Arduino IDE
 
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 * Programmer: AVRISP mkII
 
 
-These settings give you about 2.471 KB of SPIFSS storage space for files and ~512KB sketch size
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+These settings give you about 2.471 KB of SPIFFS storage space for files and ~512KB sketch size
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