Just finished adding the drivers. When the driver inputs are jumpered HIGH both motors drive forward. Yaaa! When a ESP8266 is plugged in it drives forward. I assume GPIO 0 and 2 default to Pull up so they appear to be outputting HIGH.

Bad news is my programming carrier for the ESP8266 seems to have quit on me. The serial-usb I was using bit the dust so I replaced it but now I can't get anything but ESPCOMM_OPEN failed. ARRRRGGGG! Now I have to figure out what's wrong. I get readable output at the "magic" esp8266 bootup baud rate (76800) but when it goes to program or run mode I get gibberish at 115200. Not sure what is going on. As soon as this issue is solved I can start writing software but until then I'm stuck.

New pictures coming tomorrow.